PROVIDENCE – Joan Smith can still remember that specific feeling she had when she saw Pope John Paul II in New York City nearly 30 years ago. “When you see the Pope, you get a feeling in your ...

A smiling Pope John Paul II waves to the faithful from the balcony of his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, in this small town overlooking Lake Albano, south of Rome, Sept. 4, 1983.

Guido Greganti’s 1983 painting of Pope St. John Paul II is seen with an aerial view of Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo, Italy. (photo: Stefano Tammaro / Renata Sedmakova / Shutterstock) ...

Pope Leo XIV has approved expanding paternity leave, the rights of parents with disabled children, and granting family ...

I’m truly humbled and grateful to receive this honor from Pope Leo XIV, who reminds us that faith lies at the heart of our ...

While New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan referenced the 1978 election of Pope John Paul II as a possible response to the "Communist hegemony" of the Soviet Union, he said Pope Leo XIV was not ...

It all had the vibe of a scaled-down World Youth Day, the once-every-three-year Catholic Woodstock festival that was inaugurated by St. John Paul II and maintained by every pope since.

Thousands of young Poles made their way through the streets of Czestochowa July 19, singing and praying as they approached ...

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

St. John Henry Newman’s teachings on the development of theology and the centrality of conscience have deeply influenced the ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th Anglican convert who remains a unif ...

St. John Paul II will open its season on Thursday, Aug. 21, against Elkmont at Joe Davis Stadium after a jamboree matchup at Etowah on Friday, Aug. 15.