The dust has settled after the conclave, and Robert Francis Prevost has emerged as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Now ...

A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?

Though “Thunderbolts*” took the number one spot at the weekend box office, “Sinners” might be the real winner after crossing ...

Since the beginnings of the Catholic Church, the choice of a papal name has never been trivial. It often reflects a spiritual ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.

The PM should have blocked the ousting of attorney-general Mark Dreyfus and science minister Ed Husic, writes Ross Hudson ...

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic ...

but the last time a non-cardinal was picked was Pope Urban VI in 1378. Conclave: From the Latin "cum" (with) and "clavis" (key), and meaning a "room that can be locked", this is the closed-door ...

The First Crusade was one of the most extraordinary ... threatened by the rising power of the Muslim Seljuk Turks. But when Pope Urban II preached a sermon at Clermont in 1095, the result was ...

The papacy is once again big news. The coming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor is stirring interest worldwide and in ...