They experienced his goodness and tenderness in a special daily closeness, and they bore witness to it in an admirable missionary drive...’ ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

John G. Vlazny, who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Portland between 1997 and 2013, died Friday at his Beaverton ...

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

A striking corrective to the traditional Catholic view that the Pope is the rock on which the church is built is contained in Leo XIV’s sermon at his Inauguration Mass, last week. The sermon appears ...

With the fisherman's ring and the lambswool pallium over his shoulders, these links to John Paul II helped Leo XIV stress the need for unity and core Catholic traditions. Nonetheless, he faces painful ...

But the new pope, in 2025, has done something more than mark an anniversary. By choosing the name “Leo” and explicitly ...

Since 1978, when John Paul II became the first non-Italian pope in some 450 years ... and fast food—a message that proved not as stirring as his homilies and speeches against communism. A final model ...