Pope Leo XIV ’s inaugural Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism that ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first ...

Pope Leo XIV has reopened the papal apartment, sealed since Pope Francis' death, raising questions about his approach to ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

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When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ delight and conservatives’ horror. Such ancient teachings as the ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

Inverted cross or rituals ... requested to be crucified upside down as he did not consider himself worthy of dying like Jesus Christ. This symbolism is quite common in various Catholic manifestations, ...