Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Pope Francis died on Monday April 21, 2025. This story was originally published in the Washington Examiner magazine on ...

to everything the Catholic Church does over the course of that year. The Jubilee of Hope is, therefore, like a fresh set of wineskins by which to receive the effusion of grace that Christ wants to ...

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

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, delivered the following homily during the fourth day ...

I grew up in a Hindu household in India, in a home where gods didn't compete--they coexisted. Ganpati smiled from the altar, ...

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a ...

He also brought the climate crisis into the church’s social teaching for the first time and took on questions of cultural restitution from the Vatican’s holdings, and from the Catholic church ...

The controversial liberaliser brought humanity to the Vatican – but he was unable to arrest the Catholic ... s borrowed grace, reflected light. It’s an illusion. Without God, it would be nothing at ...