You can read the English translation of the prepared text of the homily, delivered in Italian by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the ...

After Pope Francis's body arrived at Saint Peter's Basilica for his funeral in April 2025, an old video was shared in social ...

While preaching the decentralization of church power, Pope Francis was not shy about using his office to enact top-down ...

From a son of a rubber tapper in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to a Bishop-elect who was rejected by the Diocese to ...

Released in 2019, Jonathan Pryce stars as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in the movie, the name he was known by before succeeding Pope Benedict XVI (played ... and a pope emeritus (Benedict) in the ...

Former President Joe Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, will attend Pope Francis‘s funeral ... not attend the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2023, which occurred during ...

That wasn’t God’s plan either. Nor, evidently, was it Francis’. When Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died on Dec. 31, 2022, at age 95, the Register took note of what a “happy” and holy death ...

Back in 2023, when Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died, tens of thousands lined up to say their goodbyes. ANDREW MEDICHINI/POOL/AFP via Getty The world leaders who are set to attend the pope's funeral ...

No one from the British royal family attended the 2023 funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Because he had already retired as head of the Catholic Church, he was not granted a state funeral.

Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced ... During the decade they lived together in the Vatican as a reigning and “emeritus pope,” Francis repeatedly praised Benedict’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced ... they lived together in the Vatican as a reigning and “emeritus pope,” Francis repeatedly praised Benedict ...