As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

They experienced his goodness and tenderness in a special daily closeness, and they bore witness to it in an admirable ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

But it is too early to know precisely what kind of pope he will be. Pope John Paul II, who was Polish and became ... Nowhere is the Catholic Church more progressive than in Germany, which earned ...

Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and the ...

(Six months later, he relented.) Later that year, Pope John Paul II ordered an investigation into American Catholic seminaries. Experts at the time viewed it as an attempt to halt the increasingly ...

White, the university’s first American rector, also pointed out that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Leo XIV did ... obedience and authority in the Catholic Church and the communal nature ...

I am not a Catholic, but I do have utmost respect for people who are. I am also pleased, considering the tremendous influence he has, that Pope Leo XIV will continue the inclusive and humanitarian ...

An Erie bishop once met the man who would become the new Catholic pope and a former Erie bishop is going to Leo XIV's inauguration Mass. Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico was photographed with ...

the new pope is the youngest elected since Pope John Paul II was elected at the age of 58 in 1978. The first Polish pope ruled the Catholic Church for more than 26 years until his death in 2005.

In Rome, Catholic ... of Vatican II. And yet there is, he said, a message in the election of Pope Leo, if one more subtle than Steve Bannon put it. In the same way that Pope John Paul II’s ...

What stands out to me, though, is how much of this theorizing holds the breathless possibility – and hope – that maybe the pope won’t believe in Catholic things. Whether on gender identity ...