It was the year of three popes, the first time in nearly 400 years there had been such rapid papal turnover. The drama began ...

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For the funeral service of Pope Paul VI, the pope had requested that his ... Once the coffin has been set down, a book of the Gospels will be placed on top of it. A funeral mass follows.

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Not being Catholic myself, I paid less attention to his successor, Pope Paul VI, but when he died in August ... Faith Works: From prophets to the Book of Revelation, closing a Lenten look at ...

“Everything is connected,” Francis liked to say. A legacy from Pope Paul VI He was by no means the first pope to embrace the ecological cause. According to the book “The Popes and Ecology,” Pope Paul ...

Pope Francis made history with his election in 2013 as the first Latin American as well as the first Jesuit ever elected.

He often invoked the spirit of Nostra Aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 as part of Vatican ... For scholars such as David Kertzer, who has written books about the Vatican during World ...

Pope Francis, with a large bruise on his chin, arrives to hold an audience with donors of the St. Peter's Square Christmas tree and Nativity scene, at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, December 7 ...

an Italian church historian who recently published a book about the history of conclaves. Popes since Paul VI “have all renewed everyone,” he said. “So it’s an ambiguous system because ...

The drama and intrigue of a modern papal election can be movie-worthy, but the level of skulduggery these days is modest ...