For the good of Pope Francis’s soul, and for the good of the Catholic Church, Catholics must not gloss over the damage of the ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of ...

St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict ... chapel and declares: “I call as my witness Christ the ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Pope Francis' upcoming funeral will be slightly different than past papal funerals after he chose to revise the rules and end ...

On 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI made a stunning announcement: At 85, he declared he no longer possessed the vigour required to govern the Catholic Church. His eight-year tenure saw him at ...

The changes became necessary after Francis expressed his own wishes, and after Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI died on Dec. 31 ... of a pastor and disciple of Christ and not of a powerful man of ...