The antipope of Mar-a-Lago, whose adherents have embraced him and his crusade with a religious, even cultlike ardor, got out of his shiny, fortified black Suburban, clapped, ...

What a medieval religious schism can teach us about Donald Trump’s unprecedented and radically antagonistic approach to the ex-presidency.

ROME — An Italian Catholic priest who considers Pope Francis an antipope and claims to have supernatural communications with angels, saints and the Madonna has been excommunicated.

Historians know de Luna as an “antipope” — i.e., someone who makes his mark in history by asserting an unsupported claim to being pope. One might say that de Luna’s pride went to his head.

ROME (CNS) -- An Italian Catholic priest has been excommunicated for having publicly committed “an act of a schismatic nature” while celebrating Mass at his parish near Livorno. The priest ...

“He was an antipope who took over the Church,” a Justice official from Emilia-Romagna allegedly wrote on his Telegram channel after the death of Pope Francis. Today, he has been removed from ...

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope. The Papal Conclave 2025 will start on Wednesday, May 7, with a A total of 133 ...

A June 20, 1977, note written by Pope Paul VI questions whether an invitation should be issued to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X to reconcile with the church.