Pope Pius XII canonized him in 1954. Within a few years of Saint Peter Chanel’s death, most of the island of Futuna had converted to Catholicism. St Peter Chanel exemplifies a life of the Spirit ...

VATICAN CITY — As the words "Habemus papam!" rang out from the famed loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, tens of thousands of people, crushed tightly together, erupted in cheers — and tears.

With those words, one of the most enduring symbols in Christendom, the keys of St. Peter, was created, and the story of the papacy was born. When the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church ...