The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi ... especially in his Christmas messages. His 1941 and 1942 Christmas messages were both translated and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

Francis himself quipped that his successor would be John XXIV, after the progressive Vatican II-era pope. The most popular papal name of the 20th century, Pius, would be a clear signal that a ...