Just hours after the United States bombed the sites of three nuclear-enrichment facilities in Iran, Pope Leo XVI called the ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse. Leo made his first public ...

He served as Pope Paul VI until his death in 1978. In 1977, a flash fire killed 21 prisoners in the police lock-up in Saint John, N.B. In 1982, a Washington jury found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by ...

Michael Kelly, author of a new book on Pope Leo, sets out the challenges ahead and shares his hope that Northern Ireland will be on the American Pontiff’s itinerary ...

Pope St. Paul VI succeeded Pope St. John XXIII in June 1963, reigning until Aug. 6, 1978. He was succeeded by Pope John Paul I. He was canonized in 2018. Why does his optional memorial fall on May 29?

Following John Paul I's death after just a month as pope, the second 1978 conclave chose another charismatic figure who wasted no time becoming a disrupter — a pope who would turn back the clock ...