First of two parts The specific contribution that St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus offers as a saint and a Doctor of the Church “is not analytical and scholarly.” It is more synthetic, “for her genius ...

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

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling ...

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.

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 ...

The full text of the first announcement of Pope John Paul II's death on Saturday, 2 April 2005. The Holy Father died this evening at 2137 (1937 GMT) in his private apartment. The procedure foreseen by ...