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

Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...

Pope John Paul II was not the first pope to visit the United States — Pope Paul VI visited in 1965, but only went to New York City. John Paul II had been to Chicago before too, having visited ...

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 ...

“Eternity is before us. If we work for short-term and mediocre horizons, we work in vain,” Riva said in her June 9 meditation ...

and its work was completed under Pope Paul VI, who headed the Church until 1978. For better and worse, it brought the Church into the modern world. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI were both ...

First the audience with the tennis superstar Sinner, then the meeting with the athletes from Napoli, and now, Pope Leo XIV ...

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 ...

They present a challenge for all of us, but it is one that we should not run away from,” Leo said in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall on May 12. “On the contrary, they demand that each one of us ...

Three months later, Pope Paul VI elevated him to cardinal. Ratzinger was invited to Rome in 1980 to head the Congregation for Catholic Education. He declined the invitation, saying he was not ...

Pope Paul VI said in 1968 that these were the remains of St Peter. Well-wishers with an American flag before the Mass.Credit: Getty Images There is no coronation for the pope, but there has ...