"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, ...

it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the Renaissance in "The Commentaries" by several centuries. Still, it's fairly ...

Monday’s announcement paves the way for the beatification of the missionaries, who have been known collectively as the ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

That honor belongs to Pope Pius II’s 15th Century chronicles, “The Commentaries,” a 13-book account of his life that is considered a seminal text in Renaissance humanism. Francis is also not ...

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance ...

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for ...

Many welcomed his opening of the documents concerning Pope Pius XII’s ... coined by John Paul II: ‘older brothers in faith,'” said Skorka referring to Pope Francis. When it comes to the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

Pope Francis' autobiography ... by the publisher as the first memoir by a sitting pope, it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the Renaissance in "The Commentaries" by several centuries.