For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope St. Paul VI’s feast day will be celebrated annually on May 29 as an optional memorial. “Before and after becoming pope, St. Paul VI ...

Following the beatification of Pope Paul VI, we reprint this editorial on his life and legacy that originally appeared in America on Aug. 19, 1978. Each pope in the history of the church has ...

"Paul VI was the first modern man to be elected Pope," Cardinal Poupard told CNA Oct. 17. Cardinal Poupard remembered that "during the homily of the Mass of the beginning of his Petrine ministery ...

Vatican City, Sep 9, 2008 / 08:24 am In a letter to Bishop Luciano Monari of Brescia marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Paul VI, Pope Benedict XVI said that as time passes, the ...

I count my life by popes, and I’m about to see my sixth. My first was Paul VI (1963-78), who seemed the forever pontiff as he reigned throughout my childhood. I knew very little of him beyond ...