So declared Pope Francis in October 2014, just over a year-and-a-half after he was elected, as he beatified Pope Paul VI, who led the Catholic Church nearly two generations earlier.

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis, a champion of the world's poor and disadvantaged who brought in sweeping reforms within the Catholic Church, died on Monday at the age of 88.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

The election of a new leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics is shrouded in secrecy. Cardinals are forbidden from ...

The Rev. Nate Pyle, a pastor in the Reformed Church in America in Indiana ... So God becomes man and dies for us in order, first of all, to show us who he truly is; second, to purify us from ...

John Calvin is one of the most recognized names among the reformers, and for good reason. Calvinism is named after this ...

The public will be able to pay their respects at a viewing in St Peter’s Basilica and a funeral mass will take place before a new pope is elected.

"the first congregation of RCA started gathering in the loft of a grist mill in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1628. that continued to grow and it bacame today's the Collegiate Reformed Church ...