Walking into St. Peter’s Basilica, there he was, depicted in a huge mural on a wall. He still wasn’t smiling, although he ...

More fundamentally, as a previous pope, Pope Pius XII, noted the family precedes the state and ... Indeed, in doing so, he follows the lead of Pope John Paul II who vehemently opposed the American ...

St. Paul VI flourished the starting flag for the start of the first stage of the Tour of Italy in 1974 from the Vatican’s St. Damasus courtyard, and Pope Pius XII welcomed riders in the same courtyard ...

recalling Pope Pius XII’s actions in 1944, when he opened the papal villa to provide refuge to more than 12,000 people following the bombardment of the Castelli Romani region during the Second ...

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself several times since his election. Pope Leo XIV sings the Regina Caeli from ...

Pope Leo XIV ... in similar fashion to Pius IX, seek guidance for the Second Vatican Council. St. John Paul II endorsed the devotion during an April 22, 1993, visit to the church, and soon ...

after only those of Pius IX and Pope St. John Paul II. On the political side, he achieved limited but real success, especially in Germany, where estrangement between the government and the church was ...

The PCAL was created by Pope Pius XII in 1958 with the aim of studying issues related to the life and development of the particular Churches in the region. The commission works in coordination ...

such as Pope Pius XI’s “Quadragesimo Anno” (“In the 40th Year,”1931) and Pope St. John Paul II’s “Centesimus Annus” (“The Hundredth Year,” 1991). Earlier this year, Pope Francis laid out the Church’s ...

Morgan, then the head of The United Press bureau in Rome wrote that Pope Pius XI’s inauguration ceremony ... Pope John Paul II noted that popes had been crowned in the past, but said the focus ...

The first 'official' popemobile is widely considered to be a Mercedes-Benz Nürburg 460 Pullman given to Pope Pius XI in 1930 ... Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II, and ever ...

The first 'official' popemobile is widely considered to be a Mercedes-Benz Nürburg 460 Pullman given to Pope Pius XI in 1930 ... Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.