According to the Vatican Press Office, at the conclusion of the meeting with the bishops of the CEI, Pope Leo XIV traveled to ...

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St. John Paul II. in Munich 1980. You probably know that St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Italian Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, a department the pope himself once led. The appointment, announced Sept. 26, marks Leo’s ...

Archbishop Filippo Iannone, named prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops by Pope Leo XIV Sept. 26, 2025, is seen at the Vatican in this file photo from March 14, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Pope Leo ...

Ten years after Pope Francis’s Sept. 22-24, 2015 apostolic visit to Washington, 12 people were interviewed about their memories of that papal visit, and their remembrances are being highlighted in a ...

Pope Leo XIV marked his 70th birthday on Sunday with a public address in which he thanked God, his parents and his followers, after previously receiving a birthday cake from the new U.S. ambassador to ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV has marveled at the "huge learning curve" he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job to jumping "in on the deep end of the pool very quickly," in excerpts of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Pope John Paul II greeted the faithful in South Carolina when he visited Columbia as part of a conference on the University of South Carolina campus on Sept. 11, 1987. More ...

The Jubilee, also known as the Holy Year, is in full swing and visitors are flocking to Rome, the Vatican City and across Italy. In St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to preside ...