Pope Francis held his first canonisation ceremony on Sunday creating over 800 new saints. Many of those honoured were victims of a 15th-century ma...
A Vatican spokesman has declared Mexico’s folk Death Saint (Santa Meurte) is “blasphemous” and should not be part of any religion. Cardinal ...
A Vatican spokesman has denied reports Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s health is “in a very bad way”. Concerns for the 85-year-old’s wellbein...
The Catholic leader of England and Wales has spoken of his excitement over a fresh start for the Church ahead of the Pope's inauguration Mass. The ...
The "My, what a lovely chimney" of news
I, for one, am quite excited about the new Pope. It is easy to raise questions about his age - he is only 10 years younger than Ratzinger - but there are signs that there is something to like for everyone. For one, he marks the end of a long period of European dominance: it is sometimes hard to remember that half of the early Popes were from the Middle East and Africa.
How many of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics actually follow their church's teaching on matters such as contraception and abortion? How many actually believe its teaching on transubstantiation, that during Holy Communion the bread and wine offered to the congregation are miraculously changed into the body and blood of Christ?
So what does this all mean for non-Catholics? Well, probably not a lot. For most people, Pope Francis is just another old man who should really be on a golf course in Florida somewhere, enjoying retirement. And yet we all tuned into the news when the signal was given that a new pope had been elected.
Pope Francis is already well known his frugal ways - cooking his own meals and riding the bus instead of taking a chauffeur, but on Thursday showed th...
Call it first day nerves, but the Pope stumbled into his new roll in near dramatic fashion. As he got off his elaborate seat at the beginning of th...
Call it first day nerves, but the Pope stumbled into his new roll in near dramatic fashion. As he got off his elaborate seat after the beginning of...
In his final papal audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the moments of struggle as well as joy during his nearly eight years as leader of the 1.2 bill...
The election of Pope Francis I has been welcomed as "a momentous day". Minutes after the new pope addressed the crowd gathered in St Peter's Square...
Of all the contenders to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was little mentioned. The 76-year-old reportedly...
Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected as the new leader of the Catholic church to succeed Pope Benedict who resigned last month....
The papal conclave are currently meeting to decide who will be the next Pope. But what exactly does the coloured smoke coming from the Vatican signify...
The Huffington Post pictures of the day brings you the very best images from around the world chosen by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland, Matthew...
Black smoke has belched from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signifying no new pope has been chosen on the first day of pontifications. Pope Be...
The Vatican owns 20 apartments within the same block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna, it has emerged. The Holy See spent £21million on t...
The cardinals are soon to be locked inside the Sistine Chapel and told to pick the right man to lead the Roman Catholic Church. They're there becau...
Thousands of pilgrims flocked to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Tuesday to join in a pre-conclave Mass as cardinals prepare to vote for the nex...
Cardinals are meeting in the Vatican City to choose the next Roman Catholic pope. There is no obvious front-runner, but whoever they pick has a mig...
The secret deliberations and voting to elect a new Pope are to begin next Tuesday, the Vatican has announced. Last week, Pope Benedict became the f...
What really happens in the papal conclave? What rituals must the new Pope go through? All is revealed in our handy video guide above! (Created for ...
It's a relief to be able to call him Joseph. And it will be a relief once he's treated just like any other Joseph. It's been said before and it will be said again: there's a Ratzinger-sized space in Rome's nearest prison cell just waiting to be filled. The former Bishop of Rome should soon become the Inmate of Rome.
