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

Francis II? Benedict XVII ... peace during World War I—and St. Benedict of Nursia, the patron of Europe and father of Western monasticism. In 1978, John Paul I made history with the first ...

A MAN born in a farming community on the outskirts of Darlington, who suffered a terrible death, is on his way to becoming a saint.

As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give ...

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in 1958 for St. John XXIII, but was simplified ... Such was the power of those words that Oct. 22 is now John Paul’s feast day. Pope Leo XIV spontaneously added John Paul’s signature phrase ...

A St. Paul motorist was under the influence of alcohol and going over 100 mph when he blew through a red light and crashed into a sport-utility vehicle and killed the driver, according to a ...

George Weigel, the biographer of St. John Paul II and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said Leo’s doctrinal position should be self-evident: that “a man who spent a lot of ...

WASHINGTON — They all took off the St. Louis Cardinals uniform for the final time a few years before he was born in 2001. Yet Victor Scott II keeps their ... 500 at 22-19 and, as the season ...

Past blessings have included memorable moments, such as St. Pope Francis on the first Sunday window appearance (AP) VATICAN CITY: For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it's the unmissable ...

Pope Francis gestures on the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy to pray the Angelus and bless the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP ...

Especially since the papacy of St. John Paul II – from 1978 to 2005 – popes have added short messages touching on different topics of the day. When a pope misses the weekly occasion – as ...