Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1999, these 108 martyrs bore witness to Christ under Nazi and Communist persecution ...

Bennett stressed that Francis encouraged the charismatic renewal, along with other lay movements, like Pope Benedict XVI and ...

Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders ...

According to Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the vicar general of Rome, there are 8,020 priests and deacons currently in the ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

An obituary from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for centenarian priest and Archbishop Emeritus of St. John’s Nfld., Fr. James MacDonald. His funeral Mass was June 7.

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

Father Marko Rupnik is seen with a mosaic from Krakow, Poland. (photo: Waldemar Sowinski / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / ...

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 ...

The new pope seems remarkably unflustered by his election, aware of the enormity of the change that has happened to him, but ...

Pope Leo XIV is ending one of the changes instituted by Pope Francis to bring about “Synodality” in the Church.

The Augustinians just made history - and for Fr Leslie Gatt, it's personal. With Pope Leo XIV becoming the first pontiff from the Augustinian Order, the Maltese Prior Provincial quipped: ...