Born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa in Italy, Benedict XV’s time as pontiff was largely overshadowed by World War I.

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

Pius XII was the World War II-era pope criticized for not speaking out sufficiently about the Holocaust. “It is now a name that is hostage to some Catholic groups that can be considered ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

Follow live coverage as Catholic cardinals elect the next Pope in the highly secretive conclave to lead the Vatican following ...

Lemaître was feted by Pope Pius XII and made the president to the Pontifical Academy of Science. Needless to say, the Catholic Church does not embrace biblical literalism. Pope Francis brought ...

He did not—dying on the eve of the D-day. And, unsurprisingly, Mussolini asked that Pius XI’s desk be cleared, a request that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (soon to be Pope Pius XII) consented to.

At the election of Popes that I have witnessed, Pius XII, who was dying in 1954 but Our Lady healed ... You said his ideology, a Pope does not have an ideology. No. Ideology is for politicians.

St. John Bosco offered Mass in the chapel, and Pope Pius XII also visited the image and ... The king underwent a conversion before dying and instructed his son to build a convent in Rome for ...

Word circulated around Vatican City on Thursday that the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis would most ... There are even some of Pius XII, who died in 1958 – but very few of Benedict ...