Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented ...

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia. It’s by far the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

When it came to the life issues, Pope Saint John Paul II was best known for his powerful 1995 encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ( ...

Weigel’s keynote address followed panel discussions on the Catholic approach to antisemitism throughout history and since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and other cities in Poland on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the death of John Paul II 18 years ago and honour the legacy of the Polish-born pope, ...

Religious podcasters would do well to study his affirmations of women’s equal dignity.

Pope Francis has participated remotely in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat after getting good news from his doctors.

Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is ...

The Catholic Church has not had a pope die in office since 2005, when Pope John Paul II died at the age of 84 after one of the longest pontificates in history. Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected ...