Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

In the early 20th century, Pope Pius IX acknowledged that movies could be ... a clear awareness of its strengths and weaknesses." Pope Benedict XVI, who became pontiff in 2005, encouraged the ...

So maybe some more service-oriented excursions by John Paul II or Benedict XVI will emerge in ... "As recently as 1848, Pope Pius IX had to flee the Vatican disguised as a priest — a persistent ...

Pope Benedict XV had the picture of Our Lady of ... “Here is your true Queen!”. Pope Pius IX told the Redemptorists, in speaking to them of the treasure he had committed to their care ...

Some of these popes led immoral lives; at one point, a 20-year-old was chosen as Pope Benedict IX, who then sold the office to another cleric. The power struggle for the papacy, not missionary ...

According to some it is prior to Charlemagne (742-814), according to others it had its origin at the end of the twelfth century, but it certainly antedates the year 1050, since Pope Leo IX (1051 ...

The early Church Fathers—Tertullian, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, and Hilary—wrote in favor of clerical celibacy, and at the end of the Dark Ages, great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory ...