* Per the 2022-2023 final release data in IPEDS ‡ The median salary for workers with 10 or more years of experience per Payscale. The College of St. Benedict, in St. Joseph, MN, is an all-women ...

St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended ... must certify the death and seal the papal apartment.

The papal fisherman’s ring and lead seal were nulled during the 12th general ... The ring takes its name from its image of St. Peter as a fisherman, which became the standard design around ...

The camerlengo will break Francis' ring and smash the seal with a hammer ... And the future Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, preached at the funeral of Pope St. John Paul II when ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope ...

St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended ... must certify the death and seal the papal apartment.

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread, and then burning them.