The new Pope is inaugurated in St Peter's on Sunday. Then the great wave of public and media interest in the Catholic Church will subside. A few more people can now tell a pallium from a chasuble. A ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

He served for two decades in Peru, where he became a bishop, and is a Peruvian national. In addition to English, he speaks ...