He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and ... Sponsor Message Though billed by the publisher as the first memoir by a sitting pope, it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the Renaissance in "The Commentaries" by ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, referring to centuries-old tradition of cardinals gathering in the pope's official residence, the Sistine Chapel, after a pontiff's death to elect the next.

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the ... the Commentaries of Pius II, pope from 1458 to 1464. Published posthumously under ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name ... as the first memoir by a sitting pope, it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the Renaissance in "The Commentaries" by ...

Historian Yvonnick Denoël delves into recently declassified documents for his book 'Vatican Spies', revealing an intricate network of hidden connections and underground conflicts that, starting from World War II,

In the hours after the release deal was announced, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, a senior papal aide who has longstanding ties to Latin America ... by St. John Paul II in 1998, Pope Benedict XVI ...

When a 25-year-old government worker was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border to eastern Congo, he knew the risks of resisting corruption.

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and territory of Australia from 24 November to 1 December.

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