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

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

Some asked him to bless items they brought with them. Pope John XXIII receiving the papal tiara during his coronation in 1958.Credit...Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images In the book ...

The pope then moved to a balcony and was crowned. A film of the coronation of Pope John XXIII in 1958 shows him being crowned, with the narrator proclaiming him: “The vicar of Christ on earth.” ...

A gold metallic embroidered stole of Pope John XXIII and the papal tiara of Pope ... Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) decided not to wear it anymore, as times had changed; Paul VI had ...

Up until 1963, it was the “coronation” of the new pope, who wore the papal tiara. The rite took five hours (!) in 1958 for St. John XXIII, but was simplified somewhat for St. Paul VI in 1963.

things that remind us of Pope Saint John Paul II, still others that remind us of Benedict XVI, Paul VI, or Saint John XXIII. But as the Italian saying goes, “you got to make gnocchi with the ...

area native Pope Leo XIV will be visited by his brothers in Rome - including New Lenox resident John Prevost. Pope Leo was elected following the 2025 papal conclave on Thursday, with the Dolton ...

the new pope isn’t quite the same as Sorrentino’s titular “New Pope” either. The 2020 drama casts John Malkovich (another Illinois native, and charter member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf ...

John Prevost, the 69-year-old pope’s older brother, was hosting Associated Press journalist Obed Lamey at his New Lenox, Ill., home Thursday when he realized that he had missed several calls on ...

This followed the death of Pope John XXIII. This was the conclave that elected the then Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Giovani Montini as new pope who later became known as Pope Paul VI.