The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Pope Francis places a red biretta on the head of new Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, a British Dominican and theologian, during a ...

"Judgement Day" could take place in 2027. It's a 900-year-old book, carefully preserved at the Vatican, that predicts it. And ...

And yet Francis’ critics often complain that he’s authoritarian, that he takes decisions in a vacuum and without regard to ...

Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome ...

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I can say that it has certainly been a very hard time for him, this month, for him who loves to give himself entirely, to be ...

Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that ...

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Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication ... fascism and censorship. But Francis will leave a phenomenal rebuttal. One of the pope's greatest achievements ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is recovering well from pneumonia ... “The pope will recover,” Peña Parra said on the sidelines of a book launch. “The pope is recovering well.