The Vatican City is toughening punishments for people entering the place illegally, in light of the expected influx of ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

Violence is always a worry for world leaders, of course, and security surrounding the Pope is always heavy – not least because John Paul II was lucky to survive an assassination attempt in 1981.

Pope John Paul II, co-authored books with journalists that were personal reflections and not official papal documents. But for readers, including the Roman Catholic faithful, Hope vividly ...

When Lefebvre consecrated Williamson and three other SSPX priests as bishops in 1988 against the express orders of Pope John Paul II, the four ... as “a fruitless attempt to warn the Vatican ...

The basement of the Northeastern University Catholic Center in Boston on the night of Jan. 23 looked like any other college ...

including Al-Qaeda and Islamic State/ISIS, have in recent decades threatened to attack the Vatican, where Pope John Paul II barely survived an assassination attempt in 1981.

English historian Paul Johnson dubs 1968 as the year of “America’s Suicide Attempt ... first established by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1963 during the II Vatican Council.

The partnership between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan to combat ... at times clashing over financial and doctrinal issues. McElroy’s attempts to shift the bishops away from ...

His legacy, though, includes supporting a military regime in El Salvador during the beginning of the Salvadoran Civil War, including the assassination of Saint Óscar Romero. The United States sent ...

President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second, nonconsecutive term in the White House Jan. 20, becoming the nation’s 47th ...