Scottish priest scales Everest to keep a Christmas vow — and plants a seed for Nepal’s first high-altitude parish.

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

In a world teetering between authoritarianism and apathy, the new pope has a choice – challenge injustice or repeat the mistakes of silence and compromise. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in the U.S ...

In World War II, the Holy See once again declared itself entirely neutral from the beginning, but Pope Pius XII expressed early disillusionment with his role as an advocate for peace. FILE ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and the ...

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.

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 ...