The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many historians dispute that as impossible to verify, and instead say the ...

Today’s day and age needs more holy families — a need that Pope St. John Paul II keenly observed and ... Cardinal Mindszenty described the young man’s exemplary piety: At night, Emeric ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Beloved by conservatives, Sarah would signal a return to the doctrinaire and liturgically minded papacies of John Paul II and Benedict ... be on the young side to be elected pope for life ...

Wenski told the Sun Sentinel he first met the pope in Rome and found a man who enjoyed levity ... to the state came in 1987, when Pope John Paul II conducted a mass in Miami and was greeted ...