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

Bernard, also known as St. Bernard of Menthon, lived from about 1020–1081 in what are now the countries of France, ...

During his Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis asked his listeners to consider the qualities necessary for good leadership.

The ecclesiastical jargon is no more; it has retired, giving way to a more creative language. The latest example was provided ...

Pope Francis pointed out the saints he likes to call “the saints ‘next door,’ the everyday ones, hidden, who go forward in ...

Pope Francis said he is praying for the victims of the floods in Spain and the suffering of innocent civilians in the ...

The report refers to sexual abuse cases by members of the clergy in Munich from 1945 to 2019, where Joseph Ratzinger was archbishop between 1977 and 1985 Speaking from the Apostolic Palace in the ...

The Queen is pulling out of engagements this week after becoming unwell with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace has ...

At the Angelus, the pope mentioned the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, set to open tomorrow in Azerbaijan until ...

From the window of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis greets a local group of Emergency supporting Article 11 of the Italian ...

However, he has declined an invitation to Paris to attend the reopening of Notre-Dame a week before, which has irritated the French presidency.

A papal nomination was dangerous business – sometimes to the ... He added, “It is a custom of the Romans to go in his palace ...