In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

Today is Monday, March 2, the 61st day of 2026 with 304 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter and Mars.

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave ...

Bishop Richard Stika, who resigned from leading the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2023 after a Vatican investigation into alleged mismanagement, died on Feb. 17. He was 68 years old. His death ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret ...

A reporter ponders on how to repair a religious structure long thought of as good but supported by an evil underside ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a 10-day trip through Africa visiting four countries in a trip seen as significant to Catholics in the continent.

Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, the Archbishop Emeritus of Dar es Salaam and one of Tanzania’s most prominent Catholic leaders, has died at the age of 81.

The assassination of Khamenei, who took power in 1989, has left Iran’s top leadership to prepare for the transfer of power at ...

HIS Eminence, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, was a Tanzanian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Dar es ...

POLYCARP Cardinal Pengo, who died on February 19, 2026 at the age of 81, was one of the most influential Catholic leaders in Tanzania’s modern history, serving for nearly three decades as Archbishop ...