(Credit: NS photo/courtesy Diocese of Brescia.) Listen ROME – The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope St. Paul VI’s feast day will be celebrated annually on May 29 as an optional memorial.

Most of the United States will mark the Ascension next Sunday: Jesus may have ascended on the 40th day after Easter ... of the optional memorial of Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978).

Pilgrims pray as they walk from Silver Spring, Maryland, to the St. John Paul II National Shrine in northeast Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 21, to honor John Paul II's feast day Oct. 22 ...