Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented ...

John Paul spent so much time on the 10th floor papal suite that ... He has started signing off documents that he issues from there “From the Gemelli Polyclinic.” Pope Benedict XVI, for his part, was ...

In his first general audience, which was held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 15,000 people, the Pope again gave thanks to God for having elected him as Peter's successor ...

On March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, the International Day of the Unborn Child is celebrated in more ...

Archbishop Benedict John Osta was born on 15.August 1931. He was ordained Priest on 9.June 1963, and ordained Bishop on 21 June1980 and was appointed Bishop of Patna. Later in 1999, Pope John Paul II ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...