Just hours after the United States bombed the sites of three nuclear-enrichment facilities in Iran, Pope Leo XVI called the ...

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse. Leo made his first public ...

Michael Kelly, author of a new book on Pope Leo, sets out the challenges ahead and shares his hope that Northern Ireland will be on the American Pontiff’s itinerary ...

He served as Pope Paul VI until his death in 1978. In 1977, a flash fire killed 21 prisoners in the police lock-up in Saint John, N.B. In 1982, a Washington jury found John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by ...

Pope St. Paul VI succeeded Pope St. John XXIII in June 1963, reigning until Aug. 6, 1978. He was succeeded by Pope John Paul I. He was canonized in 2018. Why does his optional memorial fall on May 29?

Following John Paul I's death after just a month as pope, the second 1978 conclave chose another charismatic figure who wasted no time becoming a disrupter — a pope who would turn back the clock ...

Pope Paul VI, the last Italian pope (other than the very brief papacy of John Paul I), reportedly wept at news of the 1978 assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro: The two had known each ...

As the Chicago Archdiocese notes, Pope John Paul II was not the first pope to visit the United States — Pope Paul VI visited in 1965 ... in office until his death in 2005.

Pope Leo XVI will be formally installed as pontiff when he holds his inaugural public Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18, the Vatican said. The first U.S.-born pope, formerly Cardinal Robert ...

Following Francis' death, NBC News noted that the conclave ... Pope John Paul II (1978) and Pope Paul VI (1963) were both elected after three days of voting.

Pope John Paul II, who was elected in Oct. 1978, was 58 years old when he was elected, and his predecessors, Pope John Paul I and Paul VI, were both 65 years of age. In fact, since 1800 ...

There have been just seven papal elections in the last 100 years, with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor ...