In his Nov. 26, 1969, Wednesday general audience address, Pope Paul VI announced on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 30, 1969, that the new Mass was to become the new liturgical norm of the Roman ...

In his response, first published by Gloria TV and co ... which studied the legal status of the traditional Mass. It determined Paul VI had never abrogated the old rite and, according to ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Things were far more complicated when the first-ever papal visit to the U.S. took place almost exactly 50 years ago. In 1965, Pope Paul VI planned a ... and leading a Mass at Yankee Stadium ...

On Oct. 4, 1965, Blessed Pope Paul VI became the first sitting Pope to visit the Western ... But the highlight of his trip was the outdoor Mass at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx attended by adoring ...