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

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 ...

His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, was the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara. The papal inauguration now involves the formal bestowal of the pallium, a white woolen band adorned with ...

Pope Paul VI’s 1971 “Octogesima adveniens,” or “80th Anniversary,” advocates for equality and addresses youth and women. Legislation, he wrote, should recognize women’s “independence ...

But much of that pageantry has since been abandoned.Video below: Robert Francis Prevost announced as Pope Leo XIVPope Paul VI was the last to wear the triregnum at his 1963 installation.

like Francis (2013), Pope Benedict XVI (2005), Pope John Paul I (1978) and Pope Pius XII (1939). Pope John Paul II (1978) and Pope Paul VI (1963) were both elected after three days of voting.

Under rules set forth by Pope Paul VI in 1970, eligible cardinals must be under the age of 80 in order to vote for a new pope, meaning that only 133 of the College of Cardinals' members were ...

Previous popes were crowned with a papal tiara, but the last pope to do so was Pope Paul VI, who was also the last pope to have a coronation. Emily Burack (she/her) is the Senior News Editor for ...

Pope Paul VI was the last to wear the triregnum, during his installation in 1963. He also was the first to hold the ceremony outdoors, in St. Peter's Square, to accommodate the enormous crowds ...

The tomb of Pope Paul VI lies in the extensive system of vaults called the Vatican Grottoes, built under St. Peter's Basilica in the 1500s. No surprise, then, that Francis’s arrangements for his ...