Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Gene O’Hara, former chair of the Board of Governors and a dedicated alumnus who steered Rutgers through several ...

While the next pope is almost certainly well-known already in Vatican City, the rest of the world should prepare to be surprised.

St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force today, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it twice before he resigned. Francis didn’t ...

In February 1843, Fitton sold the land to Benedict ... Mount Saint James, is often invoked in references to the hillside campus. By any name — Pakachoag, Mount Saint James, College Hill ...

St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force today, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it twice before he resigned. Francis didn't ...

Pope Francis has died aged 88, the Vatican announced on Monday. His death came one day after a brief appearance to thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for the Vatican’s open-air Easter Sunday ...

Queues are already forming in Saint Peter’s Square. When Pope Francis’s retired predecessor Pope Benedict XVI died ... who is the Dean of the College of Cardinals. At the end of funeral ...

St. John Paul II (Poland); Benedict (Germany) and Francis (Argentina). But while Parolin has managed the Vatican bureaucracy, he has no real pastoral experience. His ties to the London scandal ...

They are also planning to soon host a joint prayer service with the College of St. Benedict to remember him. St. Cloud's Bishop Patrick M. Neary remembers Pope Francis The Diocese of St. Cloud ...

Mourners gathered as a hush fell over St. Peter’s ... named him to the Sacred College of Cardinals, which elects new popes. In 2013, Francis succeeded retired Pope Benedict XVI as the 266th ...