Written by Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director at EWTN News, it is the first authoritative biographical ...

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

The official portrait of Pope Leo XIV ... Paul VI and John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI, offered daily Mass in the private upstairs chapel; Pope Francis used the chapel in the St. Martha ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops ...

Popes from Pius V to Benedict XVI are referenced in ways that only a Catholic historian might recognize, but which are nonetheless instructive about the nature of the satire. Jude Law’s Pope ...

The most common papal name is John, followed by Gregory and Benedict. Although there has been a Pope John XXIII, there have only been 21 legitimate popes named John. That's because John XVI was an ...

It's a centuries-old process that takes place in secret, a sacred task entrusted to a small group of men who will choose the spiritual and pastoral leader for the world's 1.4 billion Roman ...

Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I, but also to St. Benedict of Nursia, who founded the Benedictine Order and influenced the spread of Christianity ...

The last time this happened, in 2013, Catholics weren't mourning the death of the Holy Father; instead, they were reeling from the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, something that hadn't happened ...