Here’s some background information about the Vatican’s timetable and process for choosing a new pope. Burial & Mourning upon ...

In an exclusive interview, persecuted Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez shares with EWTN News his experience one year after ...

Papal delegates and those specially appointed ... The pallium is a white woolen vestment worn by the Pope and sent by him to patriarchs, primates and archbishops. It is the symbol of the fullness ...

If God lies in the details, the papacy follows close behind. The architecture of the great Catholic Church rests on not just the grey and grim men and women floating down the Vatican corridors in ...

Cardinals start gathering in Rome. (Interregnum: The period between the death of pope and the election of a new pope.) By tradition, the body of the pope is dressed in papal vestments and will be put ...

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, ...