This year marks the 30th anniversary of Ut unum sint, Pope St John Paul II’s landmark encyclical on ecumenism, signed on May ...

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

Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Cardinal Baldassare Reina as the grand chancellor ushers in a new era for the institute that had been directed away from John Paul II’s magisterium during Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Leo XIV named Fr Renzo Pegoraro pic, a bioethicist who earned a medical degree before entering the seminary, to be the ...

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

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18 ... a prayer-commentary on the last chapter of the Constitution Lumen Gentium of Vatican II, a chapter which deals with the wonderful presence of the ...

Tours of the main exhibit, which includes the Jubilee temporary display, are available in English and Spanish. The Saint John ...

Pope John Paul II is buried under a slab of white and gray marble a few feet from the tomb of St. Peter, the original pope of the Catholic Church. Vatican officials today opened the Vatican ...

A leaked draft document on revising liturgical norms in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, has stirred backlash for ...

Philipps recalled that she later went on a trip to Europe with friends where they stopped at the Vatican on a day Pope John Paul II happened to be giving an address. She said “a confluence of ...

The initiative seeks to preserve unique documents and facilitate worldwide access to this treasure of the Church.

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