Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted ...

ROME (AP) — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

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Pope Leo XIV is marking a feast day as the Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful. Leo ...

Faced with a formidable threat from the East, Pope Innocent IV dispatched an embassy to the Tatars, led by the Roman Catholic diplomat Simon of Saint Quentin. After months of arduous travel and ...

Pope Gregory died that year, and confronting the king fell to Pope Innocent IV, who in 1245 called for a general council at Lyon, France. While other issues were discussed, the focus was on Fredrick, ...

They chose to follow the Rule of St. Augustine under one superior general; Pope Innocent IV approved the new order as the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine in 1244. Later, in 1254, Pope Alexander IV ...

Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) Born Karol Józef Wojtyła, he was the first non-Italian pope in over 450 years and a significant figure in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

Later, in 1254, Pope Alexander IV included other groups of hermits in the order, known as the Grand Union. A 15th-century Gothic relief of St. Augustine surrounded by monks in Venice, Italy.