PopeFrancis has exposed the political "maneuvers" used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a ...
Vatican City • PopeFrancis said in a newly released interview that he backed his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the conclave that elected Benedict pope in 2005 — despite the efforts of ...
Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, PopeFrancis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap ...
PopeFrancis canceled at the last minute his attendance at the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, in what the Vatican described as a bid “to preserve his health” ahead of more ...
Bishop Joseph Strickland did not always have a difficult relationship with PopeFrancis. When Francis became the head of the Catholic Church, Strickland recalls admiring how welcoming the pope ...
PopeFrancis again called for an “immediate cease-fire” between Israel and Hamas and a “prompt release” of the remaining hostages taken by the Palestinian militant group on October 7 while ...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — PopeFrancis said in a newly released interview that he backed his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the conclave that elected Benedict pope in 2005, despite the efforts ...