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 ...

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 ...

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, condemned the exploitation of the poor and called for unity in the church during his ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

While Leo held the first Mass of his papacy in the Sistine Chapel ... His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, was the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara. The papal inauguration now involves ...