(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the ...

Pope Francis may visit Corsica for a December 14-15 conference organized by the Diocese of Ajaccio. He would be the first ...

In Conclave, Vatican City isn’t immune to election-season absurdity.

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Pope Francis attends a session of the 16th General Assembly ...

By law, a pope possesses supreme executive, legislative and judicial authority in the Catholic Church, meaning there simply ...

Ralph Fiennes playing a morally tormented Poirot of sorts in a papacy election whodunnit is what movies were made for.

Such is the disruption under Francis that a new book by a veteran Canadian Vatican watcher ponders whether the Pope is presiding over the end of the papacy. One cannot respond to the Francis mystique ...

Such is the disruption under Francis that a new book by a veteran Canadian Vatican watcher ponders whether the Pope is presiding over the end of the papacy. One cannot respond to the Francis ...

(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy on Thursday, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy on Thursday, denouncing a world that “is losing its heart” during times of global turmoil marked by “wars ...