When someone accepts election as pontiff, there undergoes a change in that individual, not only in life purpose in leading ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music said this week it is launching its “Let’s Sing with the Pope” initiative as a series of “short educational video tutorials” to make Gregorian ...

Six hundred years later, Pope Gregory VII forced the brilliant monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry IV, to walk barefoot in the snow for miles before granting him forgiveness at Canossa ...

Gregory VII: This Gregory was one of the 16 men by that name and is not to be confused with the more famous Gregory the Great. This pope was a reformer, who struggled to deal with the problems of ...

“We have a pope!” The Cardinal Protodeacon’s announcement ... tradition of popes who stand up to secular power: from Gregory VII, who made Emperor Henry IV walk barefoot through the snow ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Cardinal Wilton Gregory, also a South Side native, spoke about their experience in the conclave and electing the first American pope, Leo XIV, who is from this city.

The ritual of the smoke is ancient. In 1274, at the Second Council of Lyons, Pope Gregory X, determined the procedure for holding a conclave and it continued from then on. There, he specified that ...

For many centuries, new popes tended to choose the name of the pope who had elevated them to cardinal. John was the most popular, chosen by 23 popes, followed by Benedict and Gregory, each with 16.