The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past relationship with the ...

The papacy has traditionally been held by cardinals, but exceptions exist. Historical trivia surrounding papal conclaves ...

Paris (AFP) – A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past ...

PARIS (AFP) — A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 was sold at auction on Sunday outside Paris for 26,360 euros ($30,000), the ...

Pope Paul VI was born Giovanni Battista Montini in Brescia ... was canonized as a saint along with John Paul II in 2014. Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Pacelli, was an Italian cardinal before ...

Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there ...

The second-shortest was Pope Pius XII (1939), who was elected on just ... the cardinals rushed to elect Bartolomeo Prignano (Pope Urban VI). Urban turned out to be so harsh and temperamental ...