Matilda of Canossa, the Margravine of Tuscany who militarily and materially made possible Pope Gregory VII’s famous Investiture ... changed which Catholic feast days would be publicly celebrated ...

The last non-European pontiff before him was Pope Gregory III, who reigned from 731 to 741 and was born in what is now Syria. With a span of more than 1,270 years between them, Pope Francis’s ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin ... It was introduced into the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century by Pope Gregory XI, then removed from the calendar by Pope Pius V ...

Gregory and Susan Hudak, who lived for 40 years in the Chicago area, found themselves in Rome after booking a trip in February, with just a faint hope of perhaps glimpsing the pope. Seeing the ...

ROME — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts ...

A 36-minute video purporting to show Pope Leo XIV reading a statement denouncing colonialism and praising Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the 37-year-old leader of Burkina Faso, has garnered nearly a ...

When a Pope dies or resigns (as Pope Benedict XVI did in 2013, the first resignation since Gregory XII in 1415), the Church enters a period known as sede vacante (Latin for “the seat being ...

Every coherent legal system in the world makes exceptions where the general rule is inappropriate. In 1842, the Holy Office under Pope Gregory XVI issued an instruction absolving penitents of their ...

Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome. Twelve months later, the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians, be kept on the 24th of May. St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888) was a dynamic priest ...

It was commissioned in the late 16th century by Pope Gregory XIII. Around 20 years ago, I had the rare opportunity to visit the Meridian Hall—also known as the Sundial Room—inside the tower ...