The conclave to select the new pontiff will contain an unusually large number of British cardinals, three of whom are outside contenders for the top job itself. Catherine Pepinster reveals how they mi ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...

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

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin as he leads the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Square, at ...

In front of us the nuns were signing. Not singing, like in The Sound of Music. But translating Pope Francis’s extraordinary ...

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Some kings are born in public, as Frederick II 'Stupor Mundi', (born on a cold Boxing Day in 1194 in the main square of Iesi in full view of bishops and nobles, for dynastic reasons) but all popes in ...

Emotional tributes to the popular Pope Francis came amid a diplomatic scramble to meet with the U.S. president.