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For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century ...
What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...
As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...
The next pope is unlikely to hail from the U.S., but here are three possible outliers who could be a factor when the College of Cardinals convenes on Wednesday.
Mistakes were made, apparently. ‘Woe be unto the person who decided to do it the way that they did it,’ one expert says.
While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...
The gleaming colonnade of St. Peter's Square provides a majestic backdrop as four men wait for a free dinner on a terrace in ...
On the final day of official mourning for the death of Pope Francis, the late pontiff was remembered as someone who was ...
As 135 cardinals meet in Rome to decide the next pope, questions about the legacy of the last one will loom large over their ...
Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...