Pope John Paul II, who headed the Catholic Church from 1978 through his death in 2005, will soon officially become a saint.
The sainthood was expected for the widely beloved pope, for whom thousands of Catholics chanted "Santo subito" ("Sainthood now”) in St...
Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been elected as pope. He is the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church. Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis I, is also the first Jesuit priest to become pope.
February 28th is the last day for Pope Benedict XVI, he will resign from being the head of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. Leaving because, he no longer had the mental and physical strength to run the church in the period of a major crisis. Now what is in store after he has stepped down?