This offers lashings of sin, a sprinkling of Borgias and a good dose of Pope Benedict IX, who died around 1050 ... The pope’s biography does not do this. It gives the reader a mass of detail ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

He is one of the most controversial popes in papal history. A pontiff who was corrupt to the core, Benedict IX was barely out ...

Pope Benedict XVI wrote to the Irish faithful in 2010 following the devastating revelations of the country’s clergy sexual abuse crisis. But it’s rare for a pope to weigh in on a specific ...

Yet it has not always been this way. It was only with Pope Pius IX in the mid-19th century that the papacy would become so visible. He was the first to have his picture widely displayed in ...

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 ...

He was appointed bishop of Salina, Kansas, by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 6, 2012, and ordained on May 1 of that year. Pope Francis subsequently appointed him bishop of Tucson on Oct. 3, 2017 ...

Pope Francis, who was admitted to a hospital in Rome for bronchitis, is in “fair” condition with a “respiratory tract infection,” the Vatican said Friday in what is the latest in a string ...

For 16 years, Vigneron has been the archbishop of Detroit, named by Pope Benedict XVI in January 2009 ... according to a bio provided by the Archdiocese of Detroit. He grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma ...