It’s a world I came to know well during four years as a Vatican correspondent under Pope Benedict XVI—a man ... Women behind desks. Ten years ago, as a female journalist, the near-total ...

Pope Leo XIV visited the papal summer palace south of Rome on Thursday as questions swirled whether he will use it himself to escape the heat or follow in Pope Francis' footsteps and keep the hilltop ...

Leo paid a visit to the Borgo Laudato Si, an educational sustainability project that grew out of Francis’ 2015 environmental ...

The magnificence of Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes now vaults above more mundane rows of stackable chairs and desks marked with ... Francis and his predecessor, Benedict XVI, were elected within ...

The Sistine Chapel was decked out to host a papal election Tuesday as cardinals from around the globe moved into a Vatican guest house ahead of the conclave to choose Pope Francis's successor.

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Left: Cover of ‘Beyond the Crises in the Church: The Pontificate of Benedict XVI’ by Robert Regoli. Right: Pope Benedict XVI prays Dec. 8, 2007, in Rome. (photo: St. Augustine’s Press ...

Corruption in the Catholic Church long predated the eight-year papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, which began in 2005. The Protestant reformers hammered their critique of Catholic greed and treachery ...

In St. Peter's Square, a solemn service that hasn't taken place for more than 200 years, a living pope, Francis, leading the funeral of a former pope, Benedict XVI.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of the Roman Catholic faithful Thursday in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI at a rare requiem Mass for a dead pope presided over by a living ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was laid to rest Thursday in Vatican City in the first funeral ever conducted by a sitting pope for his predecessor. Pope Francis, who has led the Catholic Church since ...