The Issue: The election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope of the Catholic Church ... full name and city of residence) to [email protected]. Letters are subject to ...

has scarcely been equaled by any of his predecessors on the throne of St. Peter since the days of Gregory VII. He did much to upbuild Catholicism in England and the United States, and his temporal ...

As practicing Catholics, we were deeply offended by President Trump’s recent post on the White House’s X account of a photoshopped picture of him posing as the new pope. Blasphemous ...

Clement wrote to them a letter ... claimants. Gregory VII: This Gregory was one of the 16 men by that name and is not to be confused with the more famous Gregory the Great. This pope was a ...

At first, I thought the artificial intelligence picture of Donald John Trump as the new pope must have been produced ... their views about public issues. Letters to the editor are subject to ...

Pope Urban VII reigned for 12 days ... rather than to die in office, since Gregory XII more than 600 years ago, in 1415. Pope Benedict XVI. Pope John Paul II. He was the first Polish pope and ...

Bruno of Carinthia (in what is now Austria) took the name Gregory V upon being ... conclave in 1378 elected him pope, 647 years ago. He took the name Urban VII. In 1513, Cardinal Giovanni di ...

After the Pierleonis’ choice became Pope Celestine III, the Frangipanis burst into the church with an armed force, demanding they pick their favorite cardinal instead. In 1241, Pope Gregory IX ...

There's a new pope ... and he's American! Just after 6 p.m. Italian time, white smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a new pope had been chosen. Little more than 24 hours after ...

The punishment for breaking the oath is “automatic” excommunication ... the menu to bread and water. The pope who came out of that election, Gregory X, decreed in 1274 that after three ...