Allen passed away in Rome Jan. 22, at the age of 61. He is survived by his wife, Elise Ann Allen, Crux's senior Vatican ...

Quietly and generously, John was also a mentor. He never wanted replicas of himself. He wanted better journalists -- and ...

Covering the Vatican, he had a front-row seat to the waning years of Pope John Paul II's pontificate and the election of Pope ...

ANALYSIS: The third anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Dec. 31 provides an opportunity to look at his little-acknowledged diplomatic acumen. Pope Benedict XVI and Ecumencial Orthodox ...

The president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has described the first official audience between Pope Leo XIV and the leadership of the Church in Africa as a ...

The apostolic nuncio to the Baltic states offered personal reflections on his new diplomatic mission, Christmas in Lithuania, ...

Two upcoming talks in Saskatchewan will explore, first, how martyrdom has, time and again, served as a resource for ecumenism ...

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papacy. In a Latin ...

Dec. 24 (UPI) --Pope Leo XIV brought back the Christmas Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on Wednesday night, which is the first held there since 1994. About 11,000 attended the mass, ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that ...

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