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

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after celebrating the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a Mass for the closing of a two-week synod on family issues, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican ...

The gates of Castel Gandolfo, the pope’s summer home, were closed following the death of Paul VI. The camerlengo then seals the door to the pope’s study and bedroom. The night before the ...

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, Saint Paul VI lived with his gaze ...