Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum. This “Magna Carta of Social Justice” was ...

At the John Carroll Society’s 39 th Annual Awards Dinner on May 9, four local Catholics were honored, but two popes also took ...

From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith.

AFP//Getty Images Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, addresses the crowd on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica ... eleventh-century pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) - by ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 ... in whose sight each person will one day be judged,” St. John Paul II wrote in his 1996 document regulating the conclave ...

The Rev. Patrick Flanagan, associate professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University in New York, says Gregory X ... died to give Pope Clement VII time enough to escape ...

Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, May 3, 2025. BERNAT ARMANGUE / AP It sounded like a plea from the heart, almost a ...

Pope St. Gregory the VII later drove at the root of the issue, instituting moral reforms. Blessed Pope Urban II launched the first crusade, impacting not only medieval Europe but the Middle East ...

Tap on the blue circle to take a look at photos from the funeral for Pope Francis. 1 of 28 The coffin of Pope Francis arrives at St. Mary Major Basilica for his burial ceremony, in Rome, Saturday ...

In fact, the last pope to choose ... in the Marche region; Saint Celestine V, buried in the Basilica of Collemaggio in L’Aquila; Blessed Gregory X in Arezzo; Saint Gregory VII in Salerno ...