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

Inside Vatican City, the home of Pope Leo, lies a vast collection of Indigenous artifacts and cultural objects that some ...

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

Hundreds of John Waters' fans braved the rain to be among the first to buy one or more of the books he was releasing ...

Today in History for June 3: ...

Born amid revolution, Eugène de Mazenod found his purpose at the foot of the Cross — and went on to become a bishop, founder ...

WAITING for an African Pope” by my brother, Azu Ishiekwene, made an interesting reading. Azu’s immense fecundity, as usual, his flawless prose, and free-flowing minting and weaving of words will ...

Pope John Paul II FBI identifies lone fatality in Palm Springs fertility ... Saturday morning during what local police are calling an "intentional act." World News // 21 hours ago Manhunt underway ...

In 2004, a photographer captured an image of Pope John Paul II praying in this room for victims of the Madrid bombings. Popes have often met world leaders in the papal library. Heads of state from ...

Donation Options Search Search Search John Prevost points to an old photo of his brothers, including the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost (left) during an interview at his home in New Lenox.

Robert Prevost's brother, John, said a neighbor once told him he'd be pope. When Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, one of his ...

Read more › “The best way I could describe him right now is that he will be following in Francis’ footsteps,” said John Joseph ... honor of Pope Francis, who died on April 21.