(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth), File ... whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway society, has died.

Pope Francis has thrown a wrench in some of the speculation about a future conclave. He's decided to extend the term of the ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

With the publication of this autobiography, Pope Francis cements his monumental project of demystifying the papacy.

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

Francis is also not the first pope to share his life story. As a cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger wrote an autobiography which was published in 1997, eight years before he became Pope Benedict XVI ...

As a scholar who studies how religious groups use and respond to new technologies, I find it notable that the pope frames the internet ... and weaknesses." Pope Benedict XVI, who became pontiff ...

Since then, Charlie Hebdo has been framed as a universal symbol of freedom of speech ... For instance, the magazine’s cover in 2013 depicted Pope Benedict XVI resigning from the papacy to elope with a ...

As a scholar who studies how religious groups use and respond to new technologies, I find it notable that the pope frames the internet as a spiritual ... of its strengths and weaknesses.” Pope ...

Pope Benedict XVI, who became pontiff in 2005, encouraged the creation of a papal profile on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. He praised social networks and apps that can enable ...