Pope Francis has announced that Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will be declared saints on April 27, 2014, reports the BBC. Polish John Paul, the first non-Italian Pope for more than 400 years, led the Catholic Church from 1978-2005 and Pope John was pontiff from 1958-1963.
The announcement for the date of the canonizations has …
When Pope Francis was elected last March, even doctrinally dissident Roman Catholics like me cut the former Argentine cardinal some slack. “I want to believe,” I wrote then, “that his history as an advocate for the poor …
Pope Benedict XVI speaks broadly on his tenure in a letter to Italian philosopher
Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s new secretary of state, discussed the Catholic understanding of priestly celibacy in an interview with the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal earlier this week. Celibacy, he said, …
Another surprisingly liberal statement from the Vatican
Watch live as Pope Francis holds a five-hour prayer rally at the Vatican, from 7 p.m. to midnight local time, calling for peace in war-torn Syria.
Next week, Pope Francis, the first of his name, returns to the continent of his birth. The first Latin American Pope—elected earlier this year—will call on the world’s most populous Catholic country, Brazil. Francis, formerly …
The canonization of two recent pontiffs — John Paul II and John XXIII — is just the latest sign of how Pope Francis’s reformist impulses are changing the Catholic Church
The first thing visitors will see when they enter the Vatican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale—an art show dedicated to the modern and cutting edge—will be a nod to the past: a three-paneled triptych on which the 20th-century …
As a Cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio didn’t always have the smoothest relations with the press. Said to be shy, he gave few interviews, preferring to address his congregation directly. Journalists in his native Argentina accused …
News emerges that Pope Francis said at a commemoration mass for the Faulkland Islands conflict in 2012 that the land had been “usurped” from Argentina
Francis, the first Pontiff from the New World, has a lot of old problems to deal with
Scenes from a fateful day at St. Peter’s Square.
