The year 2022 in the Catholic world was dominated by significant shifts in the intellectual and ecclesial landscape, accompanied by shockingly few shifts among key personnel in the Vatican Curia and ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec 28 – Former pope Benedict, 95, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, is “very sick,” his successor Pope Francis said on Wednesday. “I would like to ask all ...

Speaking to a crowd of people from around the world Nov. 23, the Pope expressed his hope that the international soccer competition would foster fraternity and peace. Pope Francis holds a soccer ball ...

Donald Trump is out of the White House and Covid-19 is no longer in the headlines every day, but there was plenty of new drama in 2022. Can anyone say it has been a slow news year when Pope Francis ...

If there is one overarching theme to NCR's top 10 news stories for 2022, it is calls for change in the Catholic Church. And even though these calls aren't new ones, there is a lot of hope that Pope ...

Pope Benedict XVI, a fierce defender of church dogma who became the first pontiff in six centuries to abdicate the papacy, died Saturday morning. He was 95 years old. Benedict XVI died at 9:34 AM ...

On Christmas Day 2022, Pope Francis delivered his “Urbi et Orbi” address and blessing from the central balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square. The following is the full text of the pope’s Christmas ...

ROME — Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out ...

While serving as Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru, Robert Prevost — recently appointed Pope Leo XIV — spoke out against Russia's continued war against Ukraine in a 2022 interview. Speaking with Peruvian ...

The Vatican announced Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, that Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Ratzinger, died at age 95. Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in Marktl am Inn, Germany, he grew ...

Pope Francis gave a shoutout to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar at the end of his weekly audience on Wednesday. Speaking to a crowd of people from around the world Nov. 23, the pope expressed his ...