Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated and then reinstated by the Vatican, but he was undone by ...

A 1908 photo features Oscar Rynders with his staff and newsboys at Gifford & Rynders Illinois News Co. in Alton.

A career arguing about faith has made religious disagreement easier to understand—but outright atheism more unfathomable.

When His Hour comes, He lives out the unique event of history which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead ... Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI), wrote in The Spirit ...

Today in History for Feb. 11: ...

On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be ...

They were dead to the stench of the heaps of filth ... People around the world invite me to come and give talks. Pope Benedict XVI invited me three times. He once invited me alongside other ...

The dead were more than 316,000 ... Two Popes at the same time In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his desire to resign from the papacy and the conclave elected the first Latin American pope, Francis ...

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

I chose to call myself Benedict XVI ideally as a link to the venerated Pontiff, Benedict XV, who guided the Church through the turbulent times of the First World War. He was a true and courageous ...

Speculation about Francis’ health is a constant in Vatican circles, especially after Pope Benedict XVI broke 600 years of tradition and resigned from the papacy in 2013. Benedict’s aides have ...

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...