following the devastating report which revealed that former Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI failed to act in several cases of abuse, almost a cover-up, while a bishop in Germany. The report refers to ...
Pope Leo XIII first opened the archive to scholars ... Pagano says that after Pope Benedict XV died, the camerlengo – the ...
The church is not ready. Francis has reopened the windows that were closed by John Paul and Pope Benedict XVI, but the church is still an institution that will not change until there is global ...
Clement VII died suddenly in 1394, and instead of accepting Boniface, the predominately French cardinals elected a Spaniard, Benedict XIII, to be the new pope in Avignon. King Charles V of France ...
he said. An instruction issued by the Vatican under Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict, in 2005 ruled that those who “practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or ...
This expression would never have appeared on the lips of Paul VI, John Paul II or Benedict XVI, who also took damning positions towards homosexuality. He added: 'The Pope is right that the ...
In attendance this time will be 115 cardinals, 67 of whom were appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, who stepped down last month at age 85. Roll over the squares below to see the names of the cardinal ...
by the Pisan pope, John XXIII (1410–1415), in its determination to end the schism, it did not hesitate to depose him along with his Avignonese rival, Benedict XIII, and to accept the ...
Pope Blessed Pius IX was the first pope to be photographed, in 1862, and Leo XIII holds the distinction ... the Church and as a head of state. Pope Benedict XVI — always a shy and scholarly ...
Pope Francis is set to be the first pontiff to be buried outside of the Vatican for more than a century after shunning a grand funeral. The 86-year-old said in an interview with Mexico's N+ ...
The last few months have witnessed another flurry of interviews by Pope Francis with secular and Catholic media outlets, the ...