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 ...

Attending the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, Princess Charlene looked magnificent in an all-white ensemble. The centrepiece of her outfit was her Ellie Saab dress, a midi dress with ...

There has been a lot mentioned about how Pope Leo XIV ... Benedict XVI and Francis. We have witnessed it in several popes with burning missionary zeal, like Gregory XV, who founded the Society ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

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 Chapel, though, retains its ...

and he was the first pope in more than a century and a half to come from any religious order. The previous one was Gregory XVI, a Camaldolese monk (1831-1846). In all, 34 of the 266 popes have ...

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Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a ...

Pope Leo XVI will be formally installed as pontiff when he holds his inaugural public Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18, the Vatican said. The first U.S.-born pope, formerly Cardinal Robert ...