Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, has been shaped by deep interiority and the theology of longing and memory. He personally ...

If he does visit his hometown, he would become just the second pope to come to Chicago, with Pope John Paul II holding a mass in Chicago’s Grant Park in 1979. This article tagged under: Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope John Paul II took up the role of disruptor with a papacy aimed at reinstating orthodoxy as opposed to Vatican II reforms. Pope Benedict XVI was then elected in 2005 to continue guiding the ...

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news organization, ... Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1999, these 108 martyrs bore witness to Christ under Nazi and Communist persecution.

When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy for the Holy Year. He has encouraged seminarians to be ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Keeping our gaze on Jesus, we must learn to give a name and voice even to sadness, fear, anguish, indignation, bringing ...

Dear friends, a Bishop is a witness to hope by his example of a life firmly grounded in God and completely devoted to the service of the Church. This will be the case only insofar as he is conformed ...

Despite difficulties and problems families face, Pope Leo said spreading “the gospel of the family” is a mission that can only be sustained by prayer and an encounter with Christ.

Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to pursue truth grounded in the dignity of the ...

Pope Francis smiles during the first of his Saturday general audiences for the Holy Year in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 11, 2025. (CNS/Vatican Media) ...