Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

In 1012, Pope Sergius IV died, ending a nearly three- year papacy; he was suc- ceeded by Pope Benedict VIII. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, ...

After four rounds of voting, the cardinals summoned for the Conclave reached a consensus to elect the new pope ...

From St. Peter to Pope Francis, the history of the papacy in the Catholic Church spans more than two thousand years. The pope ...

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

Numerous sarcophagi have also been found in the necropolis. The body of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, was famously exhumed for a posthumous trial in 897. In a papal ...