Obituary

ADDRESSING AN ECSTATIC CROWD GATHERED IN St. Peter’s Square as the newly annointed leader of the Roman Catholic Church, American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost used the world’s most famous pulpit to

Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics had gathered ...

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline

The first, in fact, from anywhere but Europe. There had been 265 before him, but no one had taken his name from St. Francis of Assisi, famous for ministering to the poor. Until his death on April 21,

Follow the Vatican’s journey to appoint the next direct successor of Saint Peter

SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...