Additionally, Bunson’s book touches on some of the moral and theological issues currently being debated in the Church and public arena, and also discusses the significance of the choice of the name, ...

Written by Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director at EWTN News, it is the first authoritative biographical ...

The feast of the Holy Trinity, which is celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost, was established for the whole Western Church in 1134 by pope John XII. The Angelic Trisagion is said for the three ...

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas — also known as the Angelicum — is not only the alma mater of Pope St. John ...

John 15:18-20 In recent years ... Even the new Holocaust Museum in New York unjustly criticized Pope Pius XII for being silent during World War II. The Church has recently spoken on this topic.

If true, he was younger than John XII—another pope with a reputation for depravity—who was elected in 955 at an uncertain age between seventeen and twenty-five. Due to contradictions in the sources, ...

Kertzer’s book is based upon his work with the newly opened Vatican Archives documents on Pope Pius XII. He provides groundbreaking insight into the Pope’s actions during World War II ...

NEW LENOX, Ill. — When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they ...

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself several times since his election. Pope Leo XIV sings the Regina Caeli from ...

Before concluding, Benedict XVI announced that, just as at the beginning of his pontificate John Paul II had continued the reflections on Christian virtues begun by Pope John Paul I, in coming ...

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

Included in the painting are figures of the local bishop as well as Pope Pius XII (who consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942), Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.