Three Popes, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Francis, have visited Uganda, making it the only country in sub-Saharan Africa to ...

In a ceremony on Monday, Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek Catholic bishop who saved ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

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

After four rounds of voting, the cardinals summoned for the Conclave reached a consensus to elect the new pope ...

Cardinals have entered St. Peter's Basilica to celebrate the final Mass before the conclave to elect a new pope. The dean of ... conservative intellectual, Benedict XV, and the cardinals who ...

Announcement of the election of Pope Pius X from the balcony of St. Peter's ... Giacomo della Chiesa, who would take the name Benedict XV, represented a more liberal shift and something of a ...

and held it until his death, aged 88. Benedict before him was 78, and was pope for only eight years before his surprise retirement aged 85. The pope’s funeral took place on Saturday, 26 April ...

Though his papacy lasted only 33 days before his sudden death, he had outlined a six-point vision centered ... of resisting regimes addicted to violence and oppression. Pope Benedict XV, who served as ...

THE death of Pope Francis triggered an ancient passage of rituals ... Pope Pius X was canonised in 1954. Calls for peace: Pope Benedict XV. Pope Benedict XV (1914–1922) led the Church through the ...

Though his papacy lasted only 33 days before his sudden death, he had outlined a six-point vision ... He was declared “venerable” by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. Pope Benedict XV, elected as World War I ...