MEMBERS of the Extraordinary Commission appointed by Pope Pius ... career of Pius IX. terminated the temporal rule of the Church as an organized government, and the prophecy of Gregory XVI., ...

In 1241, Pope Gregory IX’s disagreement with the Roman emperor continued even after the pope’s death. The remaining cardinals were locked in the Septizodium Palace with Gregory’s corpse ...

The last pope to choose this name was Italian Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who was elected Pope John XXIII in 1958 and canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in 2014. The other commonly used names ...

The pomp and ceremony of a papal conclave — the flutter of cardinals gathering in their red robes, the crowds at the Vatican awaiting the white smoke that proceeds the proclamation from a ...

The first German pontiff since Stephen IX in 1057, Benedict will be remembered primarily as the first pope to retire, rather than to die in office, since Gregory XII more than 600 years ago ...

There were even threats that the corpse of the late Pope Gregory IX would be dug up, before the cardinals elected Cardinal Castiglione - who was elderly and had deteriorating health. He died just ...

There were even threats that the corpse of the late Pope Gregory IX would be dug up, before the cardinals elected Cardinal Castiglione - who was elderly and had deteriorating health. He died just 17 ...

Viewers (and cats ... in New York, says Gregory X made it clear that conclaves should be focused and expeditious. "According to the original prescription, if a pope had not been elected after ...