When conservative Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013, citing frailty of body, the Catholic world braced for a like-minded ...

Pope Francis was the 266th pontiff, having taken over from Pope Benedict in 2013. Francis made history as the first pope ...

It came six days after the first Latin American pontiff made his final public ... with a landmark visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore last year. Teresa Muthikul, who moved ...

Choosing a replacement for Pope Francis is a secretive and time-tested process for the cardinal-electors in the Sistine ...

On 13 March 2013, Pope Francis emerged on the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square. Clad simply in white, he bore a new name ...

One of Pope Francis’ last acts was to approve the canonization of a man who will become Papua New Guinea’s first ... her to receive the holy sacrament of Communion during an official visit ...

The late Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, and a champion of ...

It came six days after the first Latin American pontiff made his ... with a landmark visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore last year. Teresa Muthikul, who moved to Rome ...

Giorgio marengo, Papua New Guinea. So it was less about people ... They need someone who’s Holy. That’s the first thing. They need someone who is a good evangelizer that’s the other thing.