On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet ...

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

VATICAN CITY, — The last time cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope was in March 2013, following the ...

While early popes endured the split of the Roman Empire, the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance, more recent popes have had to deal with how to integrate the religion's historically strict teachings ...

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