VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated his inauguration Mass Tuesday, calling for goodness and tenderness before an estimated crowd of 150,000 to 200,000 people and scores of world leaders gathered in Rome's St. Peter's Square.
The 76-year-old ...
VATICAN CITY -- Before crowned heads, government leaders and masses of the faithful, Pope Francis formally took office Tuesday as head of the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony replete with pageantry and symbols from ancient Christendom.
In a ...
VATICAN CITY -- Two popes?
Before Benedict XVI resigned last month, the last pope to do so was Gregory XII in 1415. Gregory acted to end the wrenching and violent Great Schism of the Roman Catholic Church, when more than one man claimed St. Peter...
VATICAN CITY -- Few people were more shocked at the choice of a Jesuit as pope than the Jesuits.
There had never been a Jesuit pope before Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected last week, and he was the only Jesuit among the 115...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Tucked into an alcove of Argentina's National Cathedral, right beside an icon of the Virgin of Lujan, is a wall of yellowed documents written in delicate Hebrew. The pages were rescued from the death camps of Auschwitz, ...