The Vatican declared the SSPX excommunicated after four bishops were ordained without the approval of Pope Leo XIV on July 1.

By Marleen Kaesebier ZURICH, July 5 (Reuters) - A priest from a Catholic splinter sect that was excommunicated earlier this week told worshippers on Sunday that the breakaway group would be welcomed ...

ROME, ITALY - APRIL 06: Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful gathered at the Colosseum during the Way Of The Cross procession on Good Friday April 6, 2012 in Rome, Italy. The traditional Catholic ...

Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, echoed that ...

ROME – Channeling his inner Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo met a “Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue” yesterday sponsored by the European Parliament and extolled what he called ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1784, the Methodist Church was chartered by John Wesley. In 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of ...

Marziyeh Amirizadeh, sentenced to death by hanging in Iran’s Evin Prison, says the intervention of Benedict XVI in 2009 saved her and another woman from prison and death. Amirizadeh, who now lives in ...