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

It's unclear where the new pope will live, but photos show the chapel and other ... to live in the papal apartments. In 1903, Pope Pius X became the first pontiff to live in the apartments.

He mentioned Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius X and John Paul II in addition to Leo XIII, of whom Pius X and John Paul II are canonized saints. "I think Pope Leo XIII is just an admirable figure in the ...

ATLANTA — People across metro Atlanta are not only celebrating a new Pope, but also the very first ... Serafin picked his daughter up from St. Pius X High School where people of all ages watched ...

Pius IX ordered the kidnapping of the Jewish boy Edgardo Mortara in 1858 and raised him Catholic in the Vatican after learning he had been secretly baptized by a housekeeper; Pius X was the early ...

FRANCIS: Pope ... Pius X; Pius XII was the World War II-era pope criticized for not speaking out sufficiently about the Holocaust. "It is now a name that is hostage to some Catholic groups that can be ...

The previous pope, Pius X, had mandated in 1904 that all papers related to the election, not just the ballots, be burned, "thus producing a great deal more white smoke for the final ballot and ...

Pope Pius X\). Picture: Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Pope Leo XIII. Picture: ullstein bild via Getty Images He wanted the Catholic Church to be more active in communicating with the ...