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.

led him to take that name and he became Pope Paul VI. His years saw the completion of the Council and the implementation of its many teachings. Then, at the death of Paul VI in 1978, the newly ...

But much of that pageantry has since been abandoned.Video below: Robert Francis Prevost announced as Pope Leo XIVPope Paul VI was the last to wear the triregnum at his 1963 installation.

Under rules set forth by Pope Paul VI in 1970, eligible cardinals must be under the age of 80 in order to vote for a new pope, meaning that only 133 of the College of Cardinals' members were ...

like Francis (2013), Pope Benedict XVI (2005), Pope John Paul I (1978) and Pope Pius XII (1939). Pope John Paul II (1978) and Pope Paul VI (1963) were both elected after three days of voting.

Previous popes were crowned with a papal tiara, but the last pope to do so was Pope Paul VI, who was also the last pope to have a coronation. Emily Burack (she/her) is the Senior News Editor for ...

His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, was the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara. The papal inauguration now involves the formal bestowal of the pallium, a white woolen band adorned with ...

A gold metallic embroidered stole of Pope John XXIII and the papal tiara of Pope Paul VI are displayed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Oct. 30 ...

Pope Paul VI was the last to wear the triregnum, during his installation in 1963. He also was the first to hold the ceremony outdoors, in St. Peter's Square, to accommodate the enormous crowds ...