The truce for the Great Victory is a game of roles, with Putin wanting to prolong negotiations and appear victorious. The ...

VICTOR GAETAN is Senior International Correspondent for National Catholic Register and the author of God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America’s Armageddon. He contributes to ...

A few cardinals are seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, yet many of the clerics who will vote have not made up ...

He has excellent Italian and speaks German, French, Spanish and Russian, which could help thaw relations between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches after the deep chill of the war in Ukraine.

Pope Francis once quipped that his successor might take the name of John XXIV. Aveline is known for his folksy, easy-going ...

The conclave to elect a new pope will start behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, with all cardinals under the age of 80 able to vote ...

Hungary has been critical of these sanctions and has secured exemptions, such as one for Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, allowing him ... he met with Xi Jinping ...

If you ask an Italian, almost five decades of having foreigners as pope is enough. The pope is the bishop of Rome, and it is ...

It was a momentous event — the first time that the Catholic pope and the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church had met since 1054 when the schism between the two churches occurred.