The Vatican plays a unique diplomatic role in global conflicts, despite lacking military power, as Pope Francis navigates ...

Vatican Diary. Jubilees have perhaps always been a privileged moment for popes to share their vision of history. Every week, ...

1968: Jimi Hendrix is jailed for one day in Stockholm on drink charges after going berserk and destroying everything in his hotel room. 1969: The USSR’s Venera 5 is launched for the first successful ...

The conclave, shrouded in centuries-old tradition and secrecy, stands as one of the most captivating rituals in the Catholic ...

I chose to call myself Benedict XVI ideally as a link to the venerated Pontiff, Benedict XV, who guided the Church ... culture and civilization." The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help ...

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when Biden, then in his capacity as vice president, led the American delegation for Francis' inauguration. Francis, 88, ascended to the papacy in March 2013 after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal defender of migrants and critic of Donald Trump’s first administration, as the next archbishop of Washington, DC. Cardinal McElroy, 70 ...

When Pope Francis permitted priests to bless same-sex couples in 2023, Burch argued the Pope created “massive confusion” that would “destroy” the Catholic Church’s teaching on human ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace, in a speech to Catholic educators gathered at the Vatican on Saturday. Speaking to about ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday named a Catholic cardinal who has criticized Donald Trump's political agenda as the new leader for the Catholic Church in Washington ...