COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

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For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

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By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City In the book “A Reporter ... during his inauguration Mass on Oct. 22, 1978, Pope John Paul II noted that popes had been crowned in the past ...

Emanuela Orlandi, new hearings before the parliamentary inquiry commission on the disappearance of the 15-year-old Vatican ...

On Sunday, May 18, Pope ... Vatican II, a chapter which deals with the wonderful presence of the Mother of God in the mystery of Christ and the Church.” After a few words on the mysteries, John ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended ... Some asked him to bless items they brought with them. Pope John XXIII receiving the papal tiara during his coronation in 1958.Credit ...