Will Leo follow in the steps of his predecessor Pope Francis and be a progressive? Or will he be a conservative, as many ...

Marcellus II and his 16th-century predecessor Adrian VI (reigned 1522-1523) are the only popes since 996 to keep their given ...

Pope Francis will be buried Saturday after he died on the Monday after Easter. He was 88 years old.Upon his death, the Catholic Church enters the "Sede Vacante," or "vacant seat," which is the period ...

Russian ruler Putin has initiated another truce ... In this situation, he acts like an experienced fisherman - sometimes letting this topic go, sometimes, on the contrary, letting it come closer.

This is because there used to be a lot of markers of the pope as a ruler or a king ... as well as the destruction of the pope's Fisherman's Ring and the seal. "Obviously, this is less of a ...

The camerlengo is the church official who verifies the pope’s death, then takes the Ring of the Fisherman from the ... will debate and vote for the next ruler of the church.