I realise that old folk like myself tend to repeat ourselves. Younger family members often remind me that I have the habit of repeating stories and anecdotes (tales they have already heard not once ...

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during ...

White, the university’s first American rector, also pointed out that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Leo XIV did their doctoral work at the Angelicum, as it’s commonly called: “For our ...

Charles was part of the British delegation at Pope John Paul II's funeral At the funeral of Pope John Paul II, most countries sent delegations. Britain's was made up of the then Prince Charles ...

flew out to Pope John Paul II’s funeral. Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, made history by becoming the first North American to lead the Catholic Church. He was elected ...

Mancinelli said in Italian he dressed Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict and Pope Francis. Since 1962, Mancinelli has crafted cassocks of cardinals, bishops, priests and deacons. His stoles ...

Pope John Paul II noted that popes had been crowned in the past, but said the focus should be elsewhere. “This is not the time to return to a ceremony and an object considered, wrongly ...

A year out of college, Prevost took his first vows in September 1978, a month before Karol Wojtyła, a Pole, was elected Pope John Paul II. He was followed by Joseph Ratzinger, a German ...