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

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According to his research, the Catholic Church under Pius XII was instrumental ... The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The thriller has not only won critical plaudits, yesterday it clinched a ...

Monsignor Joseph B. Illig was the beloved pastor who spent 36 years shepherding St. Brigid's Catholic Church, from 1922, to ...

Pius’ actions during the Holocaust have been the subject of debate for decades. (JTA) — A newly uncovered letter provides the strongest evidence yet that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi ...

Vatican Diary. The health chronicles of popes are an old practice, revealing—at least in certain eras—the frail constitution ...

1 Pope Pius XI clearly condemned Nazi doctrines in his Encyclical ... 5 In Germany itself, there was a courageous resistance on the part of the Catholic Church to which Pope John Paul II referred on ...

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the ... forth in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church remains valid: 'If bloodless means ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

In the two decades John Paul II has commanded the world stage, re-invigorating the Catholic Church in much of the ... of interviews--from intimates of the Pope, to those whose lives have ...