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, ...

On three occasions, the elected pope appears as the designated ... path of aggiornamento opened by John XXIII, who openly acknowledged, moreover, that if Montini had been a cardinal in 1958 ...

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 ...

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.

Born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in Italy ... for convening the Second Vatican Council. His Holiness Pope John XXIII died on 3 June 1963 in the Vatican, in the 5th year of ...

Leo XIII – February 20, 1878 - July 20, 1903: Born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci in Italy, he directed the Catholic Church for 25 years, dying at 93 in Rome. He was regarded as, somewhat, ...

Among them, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, who became Pope Paul VI (1963-1978), chose the name ... name to emphasize the continuity with the pontificates of John XXIII and ...

Intelligence agencies have long gathered information to help their governments get a sense of who the next pope might be ...

But deep inside I also had a burning and childish desire of someday becoming the Pope! The world is now ... Popes like John XXIII, John Paul I, and John Paul II were not generally considered ...