In this episode, we dive into a series of candid interviews conducted by veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O'Connell with ...

A cottage industry has sprung up around Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. Many of the revenue streams—even in Rome—are ...

With folded hands, Pope Benedict XVI stands on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica April 19, 2005, before a crowd of nearly 100,000 people. (CNS/Catholic Press Photo/Alessia Giuliani ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the 1910s, adding another layer to the pope’s complex family history.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI warned scientists that placing too much trust in artificial intelligence and technology could lead them to the fate of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun. In 2020 ...

In the hours after Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, speculation swirled: Would the first American pontiff be a sequel to Francis — or more along the lines of St. John Paul II or Benedict XVI?

Sts. Paul VI and John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI, offered daily Mass in the private upstairs chapel; Pope Francis used the chapel in the St. Martha guesthouse, where he lived. The Pauline ...

In 2012, at a meeting of bishops in Rome presided over by the more traditional Pope Benedict XVI, Prevost, then the prior general of the Augustinians, lamented that Western media portrayed ...

Cathleen Falsani wrote about the installation of Pope Benedict XVI as the Sun-Times religion reporter and columnist from 2000-2010. She is at the Vatican to cover the installation of Pope Leo XIV ...

An archive of Francis' posts is available on Instagram. Pope Benedict XVI was the first pope to have a social media account. He made his first post on Twitter (now X) on Dec. 12, 2012.

and now the new pope is being commemorated in the form of a bobblehead! We asked Phil Sklar, the co-founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, about two new Pope Leo ...