PopeFrancis has exposed the political "maneuvers" used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves ...
Bishop Joseph Strickland did not always have a difficult relationship with PopeFrancis. When Francis became the head of the Catholic Church, Strickland recalls admiring how welcoming the pope ...
Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, PopeFrancis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap ...
PopeFrancis canceled at the last minute his attendance at the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, in what the Vatican described as a bid “to preserve his health” ahead of more ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — PopeFrancis said in a newly released interview that he backed his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the conclave that elected Benedict pope in 2005, despite the efforts ...
The Vatican confirmed PopeFrancis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...
PopeFrancis is head of the worldwide Catholic Church, which has about 1.4 billion adherents. As far as the number of followers is concerned, no other single living leader of any religion or ...
PopeFrancis on Saturday evening presided over the Easter vigil Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, reflecting on the gravity of Easter as a symbol of God’s reborn hope and the ultimate testament of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you