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The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has announced the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 2025 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, held annually on Sept. 1 ...

He was son of Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus (329-374.) After his baptism at 30, Gregory joined his friend Basil in a newly founded monastery. At 41, Gregory was chosen suffragan bishop of Caesarea ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.

The council decided that the calendar should be corrected. This was finally accomplished by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, nearly 40 years later, when he eliminated 10 dates from the calendar to ...

LONDON -- Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago. Francis, 88, entered St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in a wheelchair to ...

Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday, the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in public since leaving hospital two weeks ago. Francis ...

Pope Gregory XI, who met with Catherine in 1377, would probably have been horrified. Catherine had travelled to Avignon in southern France, where the popes had been living for 70 years, in an attempt ...

Over time, pranking on this day became more frequent. According to one theory, when Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar in the 16th century, some people refused to follow the new system and ...

One theory suggests it dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, moving the start of the new year from April 1 to January 1. As a result ...