They always showed slender and austere Pope Pius XII (he was pope from 1939 to 1958, Google reports) being carried around seated in a portable throne on the shoulders of the gaily clad Swiss ...

Pope Francis, as well as all the pontiffs who preceded him since 1939, defended migrants and immigration. What stance will Pope Leo XIV take?

There had not been another Leo until this Thursday, when a new pope was elected and took the name of Leo XIV. He was Robert Cardinal Prevost, and he was born outside Chicago. U. S. Freaking A.

Whether it is Francis II, Leo XIV, or a never-before-used name, a new pope's chosen name sends an early signal about his priorities and vision for the Church.

Some saw in that delay the legacy of millennia of antisemitic sentiment and theology. During the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII famously kept silent about the fate of Europe’s Jews even though evidence ...

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was ordained a priest in 1879. He was named a cardinal and archbishop of Milan in 1921 by Pope Benedict XV and elected pope in 1922.

Pope Pius XII funeral in 1958. INTERCONTINENTALE/AFP via Getty Pius XII was externally preserved using oils and resins before being wrapped in cellophane, a system believed to be used with cloth ...

“American conservatives thought that after John Paul II and Benedict XVI, their destiny was forever marked by neoconservatism. And the Pope didn’t allow it. That was his sin,” he adds. In the United ...

Resisting Fascism Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936 and became a priest in 1969. His family was part of a large community of Italian immigrants living in Argentina.

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast majority of whom Francis appointed, will choose a candidate under ...