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Can Pope Leo Keep U.S. Citizenship?
He now leads a sovereign nation, Vatican City, and the U.S. State Department says that for an American…
Pope Leo XIV: Why the College of Cardinals chose the Chicago native and Augustinian to lead the church after Francis
When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, appeared on the main balcony of St.…
The Definitive Who’s Who of the 2025 Papal Conclave
As the Catholic Church prepares for one of its most sacred traditions, all eyes turn to the Vatican…
The World Is Revalidating Itself
We’re barely into the second quarter of 2025, and it already feels like we’ve been collectively thrust into…
Pope Francis has died, aged 88. These were his greatest reforms – and controversies
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday, aged 88, the Vatican announced. The head of the Catholic Church…
What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis
The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state and advanced age. As early as 2015,…
How Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s foreign policy
When the late Pope Francis first stepped on to the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica following his election…
Francis − a pope who cared deeply for the poor and opened up the Catholic Church
Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025.…
Three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement
Indigenous representatives of Amazonian communities with Pope Francis in the Vatican gardens Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Oxford The…
How the next pope will be elected – what goes on at the conclave
Cardinals attend Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, before they enter the conclave to decide who the next pope…
Pope Francis dies: an unconventional pontiff who sought to modernise Catholicism
From the moment of his election in 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who became Pope Francis, proved…
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in…
AI Tackles The Vatican’s Secrets
Even church archivists don’t know what mysteries lie hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives, since many of its…
10 Most Provocative Quotes From Pope Francis’ City Visits
In more than two years as head of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis has not shied from expressing…