1 day ago · Pope Francis’ aide leans down to pick up the the handle of the Pope’s walking stick after it snapped as he was arriving for a Jubilee audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

1 day ago · Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion during a Jubilee audience at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Saturday.

Pope Paul VI became the first pope to visit six continents. He was also the first pontiff to travel on an airplane, visit the Holy Land on pilgrimage, and travel outside Italy in a century. He travelled more widely than any of his predecessors, earning the nickname "the Pilgrim Pope".

1 day ago · Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion during a jubilee year audience at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on ...

4 days ago · Pope Francis on Wednesday told pilgrims attending his Jan. 29 general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall to imitate St. Joseph — the man who knew how to listen to God in all circumstances ...

Jan 17, 2024 · The Vatican Publishing House (LEV) is set to publish the book “Paul VI: Doctor of the Mystery of Christ” which collects the homilies that Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, gave from 2008 to 2014 on the anniversary of the passing of St. Paul VI. Pope Francis has written the preface, which we ...

Paul VI was beatified on October 19, 2014, by Pope Francis, and was canonized this past Sunday, October 14, by Pope Francis. Paul VI was the leader of the Church during a particularly difficult and contentious epoch of its history.

Nov 28, 2023 · Defence of our common home: From Paul VI to Pope Francis Ahead of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, we explore the papal magisterium on environmental issues and the decades of work by the Holy See to defend our common home.

Aug 5, 2018 · Paul VI, who led the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978, through the closing of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) is often referred to as the ‘Pope of modernity’ as he oversaw transitions in liturgy, seminary formation, theological study, and …

Paul VI began the practice of Apostolic Journeys beginning with the Holy Land, where his historic meeting with Athenagoras took place. His first encyclical, Ecclesiam Suam (1964), gave rise to the method of “the dialogue of salvation”.