The Vatican ... John Paul II during the General Audience with the newly appointed cardinals in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. Credit: AP/Massimo Sambucetti The report drew on documents from ...

The vicar general asserted that Vatican II, which introduced several reforms ... It was reopened July 16, 2023, for evening prayers and rosary but no Mass. On Feb. 1 this year, dissidents ...

3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during ... (OSV News/Reuters/Brian Snyder) The Vatican placed the bulk of the blame on Pope John Paul II, the now Catholic saint ...

Not trusting the new regime, the Vatican signed a ... others with church ransoms, documents, and asylum." The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi ...

Another week hanging on to the pope’s health bulletins at the Vatican. In the press room ... However, prior to the March 16 release of a photo of the pope, positioned from an angle behind ...

The Vatican will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope ... Born in Wadowice on 18 May 1920, Karol Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II on 16 October 1978, following the death of John Paul I, who ...

Discovery of the new documents has also generated new questions about whether similar materials may be gathering dust in the ...

Twenty years after the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, it’s too early to declare St. John Paul II a doctor of the Church. It’s not too soon, however, to imagine why such an honor might ...

The same flag chosen in 1929 was reconfirmed in the revised Vatican constitution issued by St. John Paul II in 2000. In addition to being displayed in most Catholic parishes worldwide, the flag ...

VATICAN CITY − The Vatican on Sunday released the first image of Pope Francis in the hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff appeared to be ...

Pope Francis wished a "Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Holy Week" to the faithful gathered in Saint Peter's Square following the conclusion of a mass presided over by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on his ...

Pope Francis celebrating mass in the chapel of Agostino Gemelli polyclinic in Rome on March 16, 2025. Vatican Press Hall, Via AP No one else is visible in the picture, released by Vatican ...