In 2025, the Church honors a saint whose impact has only grown with time. One hundred years after her canonization, the ...

Pope Francis, as well as all the pontiffs who preceded him since 1939, defended migrants and immigration. What stance will ...

The new pope Leo XIV is scheduled to deliver his first Sunday blessing from the loggia where he first appeared in public ...

The previous Leo, the 13th of that name, was pope for 25 years ... His predecessor, Pius IX, prince of fools, had lost the Papal States and most of the Church’s earthly power, and he had ...

A Pope Francis II would have signalled a continuation of ... Conversely, had Cardinal Prevost taken the name Pius, it would have echoed a more traditionalist tone. The name Peter, considered ...

At the Nativity Scene and Christmas Tree ... During the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII famously kept silent about the fate of Europe’s Jews even though evidence suggests that he knew of the plans for ...

Pope Francis, 88, was recently diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, and as concerned Catholics around the world pray for the Holy Father, the Vatican revealed last week that he will remain ...

This method of preservation was adopted after an unexpected incident involving the embalming of Pope Pius XII in October 1958. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to ...

Pius IX was elected as a liberal and turned into an archconservative. John XXIII was supposed to be a jolly caretaker pope, and he unleashed Vatican II,” a series of modernizing ... supporters as ...

19-22 — Pope Francis visits Cuba and meets with Fidel Castro in the first papal visit to the country since Pope John Paul II in 1998 ... CNA Dec. 24 — On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opens ...

That ancient icon, much beloved by the local people, gained new prominence toward the end of World War II, when Pope Pius XII asked ... he chose Christmas 1538 for that first Mass in St. Mary ...