At the Urbaniana University, the academic year opened with the presentation of the proceedings of the conference marking the ...

Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative, said the Vatican needs clear rules to govern the status of future popes who resign rather than rule for life and that such a move would ...

Paolo Gabriele, the butler of former Pope Benedict who passed on the pontiff's personal documents to the media and was convicted in the so-called "Vatileaks" case, has died. He was 54.

The choice signals that Pope Leo XIV aims to press for peace in the Middle East and show support for Christians in the region ...

ROME – Channeling his inner Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo met a “Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue” yesterday sponsored by the European Parliament and extolled what he called ...

(RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My response was that we would have to wait six months to a year before we really understand who he is. Four months after his ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is not going to reject the reforms of Pope Francis, but neither is he going to quickly move beyond them. (RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My ...

A teenage pope who threw orgies, sold the papacy for gold and donned the tiara thrice—yet was damned as a demon in the guise of a priest. Russia issues Afghanistan warning after Trump says US wants ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes contributing editor Robert Goulder discusses how Pope Leo XIV’s American citizenship creates a unique tax issue and how the United States may try to avoid ...

In 2011, the late Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Mexico-born, Catholic priest in San Antonio named Arturo Cepeda as the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit. At the time, the 41-year-old ...