That leaves Roman Catholics, who use the day to remember their canonized saints, and Episcopalians, who designate it as a feast to commemorate all saints known and unknown. As for the Eastern Orthodox ...

“Never meet your heroes” is an old adage, but it’s apparently one that Surrealist superstar Salvador Dalí never paid much mind. In fact, even after a disappointing meeting with the father of ...

“Seldom in history have a man’s four-score years been turned with greater joy to all men who seek peace and righteousness here on earth, with greater and holier triumph following long days when bodily ...

The Catholic Church celebrated the feast of St. Pius X on Aug. 21 — an influential Pope at the turn of the 20th century whose warnings about the heresy of “modernism” help shine light on the ...

My first Pope-related experience came when I was assigned a scrapbook on the late Pope Pius XII. Since he died in 1958, I assume this was a life summary scrapbook and I would have been in second grade ...

ROME – Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit on Thursday to Castel Gandolfo, the traditional papal summer residence, to visit an ecological project launched under Pope Francis. According to a Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural Mass on Sunday. Years ago, it would have included a solemn moment when the pontiff was crowned with an elaborate gold and jewel-encrusted papal tiara. By ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a meeting with cardinals two days after his election, explained that he chose that name as an acknowledgment of the similarities of our own time with those of Pope Leo XIII. He ...

Vatican City — Pope Leo XIV says he chose his papal name as a nod to the Catholic Church‘s last Leo, who stood as a source of stability and guidance during the industrial revolution. The newly-elected ...

(RNS) — In taking the name Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost — Father Bob to American Catholics and Padre Roberto to his Peruvian flock — linked his pontificate to a monumental figure, Pope Leo XIII, ...