Pope Leo XIV is heading to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop town of Castel ...

So why do we cover the face of a pope before he is buried.?" Father Agnes quoted Corinthians 3:16-18, noting that it is biblical for a late Pope's face to be covered before burial. He wrote: ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

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Francis noted that in the novel, “everyone seems listless and passive, it seems obvious that the sick should be gotten rid of ...

Pope Leo XIV has arrived at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo to start a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

Here, a guide to ten of Pope Francis’s most popular books: 1. Hope: The Autobiography. ... where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics.

So Pope Francis, he stepped into the ... Liam Adams covers religion for the Tennessean part of the USA TODAY network. ... It was a handful of books that have LGBTQ characters in them., ...

Delivered just six weeks after Leo's election, it creates a broad picture of a new era unfolding in the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, on Dec. 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires. He served as archbishop of the Argentinian capital beginning in 1998 and as cardinal after 2001.