In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

After that, it was hit or miss for quite a long time. Some Popes would change their name, but most would keep their birth ...

Gregory and Susan Hudak, who lived for 40 years in the Chicago area, found themselves in Rome after booking a trip in February, with just a faint hope of perhaps glimpsing the pope.

The Religious Order That Molded the Pope: The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the world’s Roman Catholics.

Indeed, as Pope Saint Gregory the Great teaches, people “respond to the love of those who love them” (Homily 14:3-6). Today brothers and sisters, I therefore have the joy of praying with you and all ...

His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, was chosen on a fourth ballot just a day after the conclave started, making it among the shortest of the last century. The shortest conclave, the election of ...

How Pope Leo XIV became the conclave’s stealth candidate Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate than many ...

Pope Leo XIV appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s on Thursday evening, and celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning in a wholly unremarkable manner, wearing what popes are ...

He took the name after St. Leo I (the Great) who reigned from 440-61 AD. The last to bear the name of Leo was Pope Leo XIII, who was born in French-occupied Rome in 1810. He served as pope from 1878 ...

The youngest pope since the 16th century shares a name with the newly-elected pontiff. Leo X, who became pope aged 37, was even younger than Jude Law's fictional character Pope Pius XIII in the ...

The name Leo is now the fourth most used by popes, behind John, which has been used 23 times, followed by Benedict and Gregory, which have each been used 16 times.