Pope Francis appeared before some 150,000 pilgrims massed in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for his first Angelus prayer, and asked the faithful to pray for him.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected Pope on Wednesday to lead the Roman Catholic Church, a prelate announced to huge crowds cheering in St. Peter’s Square late Wednesday night.

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday vowed “unconditional obedience” to his successor on his historic final day as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Cath-olics, when he will become the first pontiff to resig

Pope Benedict XVI toured St Peter’s Square in his popemobile one last time today at the start of an audience in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims on the evening of his historic resignation as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced he would resign, citing old age, in a stunning announcement that marked a first in the modern history of the Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI today announced he will resign on February 28, a Vatican spokesman said, which will make him the first pope to do so in centuries.

Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints onto the roster of Catholic role models on Sunday, saying their example would strengthen the church it tries to rekindle the faith in places where it's laggin

Pope Benedict XVI's former butler Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Saturday for stealing secret documents from the Vatican that revealed fraud and intrigue in the tiny state.

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Vatican police testifying on Wednesday at the trial of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler said they had found documents in code, research on spying and papers the pope had marked 'Destroy' in his apart

French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran on Saturday went to the defence of the young Pakistani girl accused of blasphemy, stressing that she 'cannot read or write'.

Interviewed on Radio Vatican, Tauran, wh