That the greatest defenders of American values are the incumbent British monarch and the Vicar of Christ is a great irony.

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

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

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, ...

But the story of the Catholic Church's new leader began far from St Peter ... Paul II, says Spencer. "It’s inconceivable to think of his papacy without recognising his Polish upbringing and his life ...

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 ...

The Catholic Church is currently ... unknown to sit upon the Chair of St. Peter: Karol Wojtyła, the archbishop of Krakow, Poland, who took the name John Paul II. A non-Italian had not been ...

Church bells tolled across Poland on Monday as the nation mourned ... after experiencing breathing difficulties. Bells tolled at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Notre-Dame Cathedral in ...

Members of the 1.4 billion-member global Catholic community expressed grief on Monday at the death of Pope Francis aged 88, many praising him as a humble man who stood up for the marginalised.

Pope John Paul II has been buried in St Peter's Basilica after a funeral in Rome watched ... he called "our late beloved Pope" from his days as a labourer in Nazi-occupied Poland to supreme leader of ...

John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI ... overlooks St. Peter’s Square ...

Today we're getting curious about Krakow, Poland. (bright upbeat music ... So right there at the top we have our little trumpeteer from St. Mary's Church. A little bit further down we can ...