The new pope Leo XIV is scheduled to deliver his first Sunday blessing from the loggia where he first appeared in public ...

Marcellus II and his 16th-century predecessor Adrian VI (reigned 1522-1523) are the only popes since 996 to keep their given ...

Diplomacy is back. At least, talk about negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war is finally in vogue, as the battlefield ...

Jesus said to Nicodemus, 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should ...

The last time Pope Francis called the Palestinians of Gaza and gave them his blessings was two days before he passed away on ...

How God anointed Jesus ... Pope Julius, who died in 1513, shifted his attention to the ongoing construction of St. Peter’s. Francis’ two predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, opted ...

The Catholic tradition has it that each pope wears a custom-made ring with an engraved image of a man fishing from a boat, hearkening back to the gospel of Matthew, where Jesus calls St Peter a ...

The election came as a surprise in the wake of the unprecedented decision of Pope Benedict XVI to abdicate the pontificate ... powerfully spelled out in his other book “Jesus of Nazareth”. (Again, I ...

He quickly became known for his simple, often unadorned regalia, in contrast to his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who opted for ... known as the Society of Jesus) tend to “study languages ...

In 2005, Benedict XVI was installed in Rome as the 265th Roman Catholic pope. In 2013, a building that housed clothing factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,000 people.