The reason why the 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has re-inserted "Patriarch of the West" as one of the historical ...

The pope is accused of saying “there is an air of frociaggine in the Vatican” — a disparaging Italian term roughly ...

Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet turns 80 on June 8. His birthday brings with it the conclusion of an incongruous era at the ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the ...

It’s possible that we’re entering the papacy’s “Third Age,” which is a polite term these days for getting old.

The King summoned it in order to settle what was called his 'great matter', his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which the Papacy in Rome was blocking. In only a few short years, Parliament - under ...

In my heart, I wouldn't want us to be facing a declining phase of a papacy that is wonderful." "A declining phase?" "Well, we have seen the trajectory that characterized Saint John Paul II ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - In this July 29, 2013 file photo, Pope Francis answers reporters questions during a news conference ...

"The blessed Apostles, then, founded and built up the church in Rome. They committed the office of bishop into the hands of Linus. Of this, Linus, Paul makes mention in the Epistles to Timothy.

During the April 24 interview with "60 Minutes" that will air this Sunday, Pope Francis was asked his thoughts on the conservative backlash against his papacy, with many of his critics being ...