In January 2010, Pope Francis' predecessor covertly left the Vatican for a secret outing. However, it can't even charitably be described as an altruistic venture: Pope Benedict snuck out for a ...

St Clare of Assisi depicted in contemporary stained glass in St Stephen’s, Bristol ...

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 ...

The Pope appealed to St. Benedict for help "to hold firm Christ's central position in our lives. May he always be first in our thoughts and in all our activities!" Before concluding, Benedict XVI ...

Saturday, Feb. 8, will mark one year since Nex Benedict died. The nonbinary Owasso ... Public Schools entered an agreement to fix Title IX violations by updating the district’s policies on ...

Francis became pope in 2013 after the shock resignation of Benedict XVI ... In a passage about women, Pope Francis writes that “the Church is female — it is not male” and says there is ...

Cumberbatch and director Dylan Southern talk about being fathers working with young first-time actors and a grown man in a crow suit in their Sundance film. “Neither of them had acted before ...

Hope is a book that combines an account of Pope Francis’ life with his musings on faith, love, poverty, migrants, women ... to him by his predecessor Pope Benedict, and how the British security ...