Every cardinal, upon receiving the red hat, is assigned a church in Rome ... his immediate predecessor, John Paul I, and his first predecessor, St. Peter: The succession of Peter, the summons ...

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

On 28 September, 1958 he became the youngest bishop in Poland at 38 years of age and in December 1963 Pope Paul VI appointed ... The public viewing of his body in St Peter's Basilica drew over ...

Pope John Paul II (formerly known as Karol Wojtyla) was the first non-Italian leader of the Catholic Church in almost half a century. Born in Poland in ... to continue to St. Peter’s Church ...

In the history of the Archdiocese of Boston, only one cardinal archbishop has voted in more than one papal conclave: Cardinal ...

From modest beginnings in a town on the outskirts of Poland’s capital, Krakow, to the death of ... Another prominent theme in John Paul’s papal tenure was his conservative stance on social issues and ...

Habemus papam, we have a pope!” exclaimed Levi Meyer, a junior at St. John Vianney College Seminary (SJV) in St. Paul who is ...

Kalen Hill, a pilgrim from the US, got to St. Peter’s soon after the gates opened at dawn Sunday morning and said he never expected an American would lead the 1.4-billion strong church.

As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church. Among them was ...

Peter and Paul Church building is set to come down ... forcing the decision to demolish the twin-steeple church at 5885 Harrison St. The building is scheduled to come down sometime this week. “ ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final ... the private process to select a new leader of the Catholic Church. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista ...

Standing on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica with ... who have chosen me to be the Successor of Peter and to walk together with you, as a united Church always seeking peace, justice, always ...