Pope Leo XIV reminded listeners at the Wednesday general audience that Jesus is capable of healing and unblocking our past.

As the cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new pope, here's the lowdown on the perks, pomp and powers of the pontiff ...

Pope Leo XIV’s father, Louis Marius Prevost, was a Navy veteran, who led the local Altar and Rose Society and served as a ...

The precious vestments, the solemn music, the scent of incense: Filippo Sorcinelli has been fascinated by the sacred since childhood. Thanks to his many talents, he has embraced every manifestation of ...

The Holy Spirit "writes in our hearts before all else the commandment of love that the Lord has made the center and summit of everything,” the pope said.

The rules call for it beginning 15 days after the death or resignation of the pope, but Pope Benedict XVI revised the rule ... They should take their time. Sticking to the normal schedule will ...

The late Pope Benedict XVI can ... death. Rather it marks a period where we eagerly await his waking up from a “divine sleep,” as Ratzinger puts it, comparing it to the time Christ slept ...

Three years before voluntarily entering into his own 10-year retirement, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Shroud of Turin and recalled Nietzsche’s witness to the death of God. That proclamation ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis accused some of his critics Sunday of taking advantage of retired Pope Benedict XVI’s death to score ... was known at the time but he articulated ...

The news first appeared in the German magazine ... of Oct. 28 from Benedict could not be included “for reasons of time and production.” Benedict XVI, the eighth German pope, resigned from ...

wrote Pope Benedict XVI in an essay published after his death. An explanation of the aspects of “sacrifice and expiation” in the celebration of the Eucharist and, therefore, in the role of the ...

There has been no shortage of commentary on the life of Pope Benedict XVI since his death on Dec. 31. But one aspect of Benedict’s legacy that many Americans miss is his contributions to ...