He was an “antipope”—in opposition, that is, to a sequence of popes presiding from the more customary hub of Rome—and insisted even as he was twice deposed that he remained the rightful ...

ROME — An Italian Catholic priest who considers Pope Francis an antipope and claims to have supernatural communications with angels, saints and the Madonna has been excommunicated.

Historians know de Luna as an “antipope” — i.e., someone who makes his mark in history by asserting an unsupported claim to being pope. One might say that de Luna’s pride went to his head.

Amid the anticipation, one question is also resurfacing: Who exactly are the antipopes? An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected ...

He said the See of Peter is occupied by a “masonic Jesuit tied to a group of globalists, an antipope usurper.” Bishop Simone Giusti of Livorno issued the decree declaring the priest’s ...

Michael W. Higgins is vice-president of Mission and Catholic Identity at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. Today (March 13), Francis has reached the second anniversary of his election as ...

A writer in the New York Times once called Pope Francis “the anti-Trump,” which we guess would make President Trump something like the antipope. The essay’s premise was that the two ...

Before we canonize the late pope, let’s remember all the harm his preaching caused — and hope for something better ...

What a medieval religious schism can teach us about Donald Trump’s unprecedented and radically antagonistic approach to the ex-presidency.