What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of ...

Thousands of Catholic faithful are expected to descend upon Rome in the coming weeks — and not only to mourn Pope Francis.

Just 10 days after Pope Francis was appointed head of the Catholic Church, he received an ominous gift from his predecessor — ...

Francesco Rutelli, who knows everything about Rome, has spoken in his books about the Possession ceremony. This is where ...

No official apostolic visits during the twelve years of Papacy. He chose the path of low-profile. Unlike his predecessors, ...

When the cardinals gather in Rome to elect Pope Francis’s successor, two issues will weigh on their decision: the Catholic ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing Pope Francis' residence ...

and Pope Boniface VIII even issued the bull Ausculta fili referring to the matter, in addition to ordering processions and encouraging pilgrimages. The Franco-Mongol Ghazan offensive between 1300 and ...

Eight centuries of history, that is, from the arrival of the seal of the Four Moors in Sardinia following the Bull of Pope Boniface VIII in 1297, the year in which Sardinia nominally became part ...