Rich in secrecy and suspense -- and endowed with the potential to alter history -- the conclave process by which popes have been elected since the 13th century has obvious dramatic appea ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people ...

Director Otto Preminger’s screen version of Henry Morton Robinson’s novel shows the New England ... Despite its three-hour-plus running time, the made-for-television biography “Paul VI: The Pope in ...

Pietro Parolin could be the first Italian to serve in the papacy since 1978. The 70-year-old is known as a diplomat and a ...

From his new name to the title he uses to introduce himself, a pope’s first appearance involves symbolic choices that signal ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The Church stands at a cultural crossroads. The next pope must lead with courage and clarity — and entrust his mission to ...

The next pope must lead that charge with the clarity, courage and pastoral conviction that defines saints. I grew up in the legacy of John Paul II, a pope whose courage was pastoral as much as ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

For example, the prediction that aligns with Pope John Paul II, two popes ago, is "from the labor of the sun." John Paul II, as it happens, was born during a solar eclipse and was buried during a ...

Italians dominated the papacy from 1523 to 1978, when Pope John Paul II from Poland began a streak of non-Italians that included Benedict, a German, and Francis, the first from Latin America.