Based on a bestselling novel by Robert Harris, the Oscar-tipped film imagines what goes on behind the scenes of the secretive process – complete with scheming, smearing and leaking.

Preserving authenticity in celebrations of the Sacred Liturgy has been a prominent concern of Pope Benedict XVI (formerly known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) for more than 25 years.

Since the Second Vatican Council, the question has come up more than once. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, didn’t think much of bishops’ conferences, the national or ...

Pope Francis himself revealed that in 2005 he was unknowingly supported as a candidate in an attempt to block the election of the conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and an influential voice at the Vatican, told a German church journal ...

Twenty-five years ago, Cardinal Pericle Felici, Pro-Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, solemnly announced to the crowd waiting in St Peter's Square: "Habemus Papam". Twenty-five years ago ...

Rowland touted Ratzinger’s approachable style ... him archbishop of Munich and Freising and made him a cardinal in 1977. In 1981 Pope John Paul II, now a canonized saint, named him head of ...

Everyone present wore a mask except for Pope Francis, and each new cardinal removed their face covering when they bent down before the pontiff to be invested. The Argentinian pontiff, who has led ...