As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

"Follow me" – this lapidary saying of Christ can be taken as the key to understanding the message which comes to us from the life of our late beloved Pope John Paul II. Today we bury his remains ...

Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and the ...

The odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, long a loyal servant of Pope John Paul II and dean of the college of cardinals, stepped onto the balcony ...

Pope Leo XIV’s father, Louis Marius Prevost, was a Navy veteran, who led the local Altar and Rose Society and served as a ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, followed by pope as caretaker. Will Leo continue the pattern?

Leo’s elevation broke the longstanding rule of thumb that no American, as a citizen of a superpower, could or even should ...

Pope John Paul II’s three-hour Mass in Grant Park attracted anywhere from 500,000 to 1.5 million attendees. While the cardinal said he won’t pressure the new pope to make an appearance in ...

At 69, and after a meteoric rise under Pope Francis that saw Leo go from bishop to cardinal to pope within ... what kind of pope he will be. Pope John Paul II, who was Polish and became the ...

How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...

While working at a Minneapolis hospital, the future pope saw “The Blues Brothers” at a Roseville theater and ate at Black Forest Inn.