Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

Nicaraguans, Cubans and Venezuelans hope for a church that will denounce repression.

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

Build on the good of what Francis achieved while focusing on doctrinal clarity.

Pope Francis himself was a longtime friend of the Jews, calling antisemitism "a sin against God." As Jews, we not only offer ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his ...

Pope Francis had a remarkable impact on the Vatican. In Poland, the last Catholic stronghold of Europe, Francis took action, ...

109 of the electors were appointed by Francis, 22 by his predecessor Benedict and five by John Paul II ... as General Congregations that take place in the days before a conclave starts and where a ...

“The greatest pope in the last thousand years, Pope John Paul II was the Church’s fifth of sixth or seventh choice to be Archbishop, and the Polish communists refused to accept all the earlier ...

“The holy father … is helping push the renewal of the Church toward a new missionary impulse,” Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the Synod of ... That same year, Pope John Paul II appointed ...

Pope John Paul II visited India in February 1986 and November 1999. John Paul II, the last Pope to visit India, went to New Delhi in 1999 to issue a papal document on the Church in Asia.

If he got the top job, Aveline would become the first French pope since the 14th century, a turbulent period in which the papacy moved to Avignon. He would also be the youngest pope since John Paul II ...