COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but auguring its direction.

Venerable cardinal fathers, dear brothers in the episcopate and in the priesthood, dear brothers and sisters: The Liturgy of the Word of this ... homily for the Feast of the Epiphany last year ...

(The word “conclave” comes from the Latin ... On the first Sunday during Epiphany—the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord—the Pope baptizes babies using the Sistine Chapel’s historic ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic event ...

The image combines data collected by JWST's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and the Hubble Space Telescope to create a "visual feast of galaxies," according to a statement from the European Space ...

This Sunday’s readings offer practical, mystical and spiritual resources that the new pope will have to rely on and remember ...

As the mourning period for Pope Francis’ death drew to a close, the celebration of a newly elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, has ...

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The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful ...