The awards were polished, the red carpet was unfurled and the biggest names in Hollywood came together to honor the year’s ...

For nearly two millennia, the papacy has shaped world history, standing at the intersection of faith, politics, and power.

Celebrating with a cake with twelve candles, as many as his years of pontificate, the eighty-eight-year-old Pontiff entered ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

America also reported that a Vatican source said Pope Francis is stable, but the prognosis is guarded, which means he's not ...

An old saying about the Vatican states that “the pope is never sick until he’s dead,” and this position has held true in ...

For more than a millennium popes had governed territory across central Italy from their capital in Rome. When, in 1861, King Vittorio Emanuele II had united the Italian states to create the nation of ...

The papal states were no more. First Pius IX and later popes could not imagine how the papacy could maintain its independence without control over sovereign territory. They declared themselves ...

Quite often, powerful people could appoint whomever they chose. For example, the 686 election of Pope Conon is described in “The Book of Pontiffs,” a medieval collection of short papal biographies, as ...

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