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

Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American pope in the many centuries since Catholicism was introduced to the U.S. As his busy schedule begins to take shape, many are already wondering when might ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

There have been just seven papal elections in the last 100 years, with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the Latin phrase for “all out,” to ask all those present except the cardinal ...