Not all popes were holy—some were power-hungry, violent, and utterly unhinged. These are the men who turned the Vatican into ...

Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to ...

Ahead of the The Independent’s Climate 100 List being published later this month, we are celebrating some of the leading ...

Italy has produced 217 popes, by far the most of any country, followed by France and Germany. Many modern countries, especially in Asia and Africa, have never had a pope due to Catholicism's later ...

When he was elected last May at age 69, the former Robert Prevost was the youngest pope since 1978, when Karol Wojtyla was ...