In the final text of the Vatican II document on Our Lady, the eighth chapter of Lumen Gentium, the Document on the Church, Pope Pius XII is quoted seven times, more than any other non-biblical or ...

Pope Francis has increasingly shown his age in recent years, as he now almost always uses a wheelchair to move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St ...

That is not technically true. That honour belongs to Pope Pius II’s 15th-century chronicles, The Commentaries, a 13-book account of his life that is considered a seminal text in Renaissance ...

But Francis decided to release the book sooner to coincide with the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year, which began on Christmas ... by a sitting pope, it trails Pope Pius II's reflections on the ...