Vatican

Is the new Pope on the side of “ordinary people” – as he said when conducting his First Mass – or is he only blowing (white) smoke? Pope Leo XIV is an historical anomaly – the first American Pope. Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, he spent many years in Peru as a […]

On April 21 Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Catholic Church and a spiritual figurehead to more than a billion believers around the world, died at his residence in Vatican City, at the age of 88. The Associated Press states that he had a history of respiratory problems and that a severe bout […]