THE Pope’s successor will be selected by a Conclave in an ancient and secret process that has remained unchanged for hundreds ...

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As the world united in mourning, manoeuvring began in Rome over the contest to shape the Church over the next decade and ...

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Local Catholics will gather at noon today at the Cathedral of St. Paul to remember Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 ...

Forty-two cardinals, 42 bishops and 1,800 priests living in Rome concelebrated the Mass. Holy Thursday marks the institution ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but ...

He used his spiritual pulpit—physically embodied by Gianlorenzo Bernini’s exuberantly Baroque 70-foot-tall baldacchino over the high altar of ... baptisms in Sistine Chapel, January, 2015 ...

Francis inherited a deeply divided Church after the resignation in 2013 of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. The ...

When, on the evening of March 13, 2013, Cardinal Protodeacon Jean-Louis Tauran announced the new Pope with the words 'Habemus ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA The oils were processed up the main altar of St. Peter’s in large silver urns as hymns from the Sistine Chapel Choir ... and the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but ...