Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless ...

A CIA document recently declassified by U.S. President Donald Trump mentions meetings between two popes and a former director ...

COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John ...

As on every fifth Sunday of Lent, St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome displayed the Veil of Veronica for public veneration. But what ...

One found him in St. Peter’s Square ... A Vatican official said that he had come across a theory that Pope Paul VI, during his pontificate in the 1960s and ’70s, had been shut in the basement ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis blesses the faithful during his weekly general ...

People in St. Peter's Square watch a broadcast as Pope Francis makes ... Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden ...

The French philosopher and the Argentinian pontiff understood the dangers of being uprooteded from culture and collectivities ...

Pope Paul VI in Humane Vitae instead re-affirmed the ... and unmentionable practices under apparently altruistic motives” (St. Josemaria Balaguer). Countries which impose birth control on ...

Since Francis’ hospitalization on Feb. 14, the Vatican has issued a written message from him every Sunday, but there is a ...

The 88-year-old pope has not been seen by most faithful since a general audience on Feb. 12 in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall ... broadcast to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square on March 6 ...