Good morning from Budapest, where I am preparing to head to the airport to go to Rome for Benedict XVI's funeral. I will be in the crowd in St. Peter's Square, praying with the faithful. Before I ...

The Italian journalist Antonio Socci writes about something Benedict XVI said to his biographer Peter Seewald. Excerpts from Socci’s piece: The crucial question placed by Seewald to Ratzinger is this: ...

Before a crowd of 50,000 people from around the United States, Pope Benedict XVI described the Church in America and society as a whole as being at a crossroads. American Catholics must use this ...

Vastly different issues confront every new pope. Yet only for the past century has foreign policy been such an integral part of the discussion. As evidenced by the coverage of the death and funeral of ...

VATICAN CITY He was the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps and Mozart piano concertos to the public glare and majesty of Vatican pageantry. When Cardinal Joseph ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, was remembered as “brilliant” yet “humble” and “warm” in a discussion yesterday with some of America’s most notable Catholics. “Even if he had never ...

A couple of months ago I was in a fascinating conversation with a Catholic colleague regarding the papacies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, here in the ninth year of this curious era, 2013-22, ...

A previous version of this column incorrectly said the charge of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion" was directed against the Republican nominee in the 1884 presidential campaign. It was directed against ...

Counting Catholics: Several pollsters ask people to name the faith in which they were raised and then ask them whether they still describe themselves as members of that faith. In its February 2008 US ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, was remembered as “brilliant,” yet “humble” and “warm” in a discussion yesterday with some of America’s most notable Catholics. “Even if he had never ...