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.

Antipope caused a lot of confusion because of which Church was split for almost 40 years. However, The schism was ultimately resolved by the Council of Constance in 1417, which led to the election ...

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 ...

A writer in the New York Times once called Pope Francis “the anti-Trump,” which we guess would make President Trump something like the antipope. The essay’s premise was that the two often ...

What we can definitively say of him, in my view, is that he is Francis the Antipope. I don't mean in the sense that he is an illegitimate claimant to the See of Peter, that his behavior is ...

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.

Up on its rock on the Valencian coast, Peñíscola strikes an imposing figure 64 metres above the waves. A fishing village with a former Templar stronghold that became a refuge for an antipope ...