Immediately before leaving Rome's Gemelli hospital after more than five weeks of treatment for double pneumonia and ...

Pope Francis has been pictured for the first time since he was hospitalised over a month ago. The Pontiff has been in ...

Rev. Stan Chu Ilo, seen at St. Celestine Church in Elmwood ... African American cardinal in 2020 by Pope Francis. Until his January retirement, Cardinal Gregory was archbishop of Washington ...

He came here first after he was shot in St ... resignation.When a pope is named, they take on a new papal name that replaces their secular name. Francis was the first Francis. The most common papal ...

where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church). He became the secretary of Pope Damasus, who commissioned the Vulgate from him ...

In this combination photo Pope Francis walks past flowers as he celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 16, 2017, and Members of the Ukrainian community in Sacramento, Calif.

The eventful Avignon Papacy included three different popes ruling at the same time and an Irish king complaining about the ...

Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth date: December 17, 1936 Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina Birth name: J ...

He was the first pope to relinquish office since Gregory XII was forced to resign ... the cardinals gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for a Mass invoking the guidance of the Holy Spirit in electing ...

Pope Francis waves to the faithful gathered at the weekly general audience at Saint Peter's Square at the ... that could be a huge problem," said Gregory Kearney, a researcher at Stanford ...

Voting Under ‘Lock and Key’ In 1274, Pope Gregory X established the basics ... it became a tradition to signal progress to onlookers in St. Peter’s Square via the color of the smoke.