ESPANOLA—The arrival of winter signals the seasonal closure of the Martyr’s Shrine in Midland, but the silver lining of the ...

Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), the 265th pope, served from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013—a period of 7 years, 10 months, and 10 days. He voluntarily resigned from the papal office. On February ...

Ever since the installation of Angelo Roncalli as Pope John XXIII in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, followed by pope as caretaker. John XXIII declared ...

Taking a hand in the controversy over the role played by the late Pope Pius XII with regard to the mass-killing of Jews, the Rev. Robert Leiber, a 79-year-old retired Jesuit priest in Rome, who served ...

The pope's physician tried a method that didn't take internal preservation into account Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over 20 years. She ...

“Gandhi’s Scant Garb Bars Audience with Pope.” So read the headline of a New York Times report, from December 13, 1931, that the Vatican had cancelled a meeting between Pius XI and “the Indian ...

Joseph Stalin (at Teheran) : How many divisions has the Pope? Pius XII (later, to Winston Churchill) : Tell my son Joseph he will meet my divisions in heaven. An old man who commands no military ...

Pope Francis announced the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, will take place during the Jubilee for Adolescents, April 25-27, 2025. The pope also announced a simplified ...

Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ’s Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about ...