The pope realized then that he was reaching his limits as an old man who had just recovered from cancer," Ernesti said. After ...

Any American who takes the full range of Catholic social teaching seriously simply cannot be comfortable in either of our ...

Signs of the times.Pope Francis has raised the alarm over the Vatican's financial deficit, urging expense cuts, transparency, ...

As soon as a pope dies, the ring is immediately destroyed ... John F Kennedy chose not to kiss the ring of Pope Paul VI In 1963, US President John F Kennedy, a Catholic, deliberately chose not ...

But Pope John Paul II, who followed in 1978, picked up where Paul VI left off and by the time of his death in 2005, was the most traveled pope in history; a title he holds to this day. He made his ...

A bishop for 53 years and a priest for 67 years, Bishop Basil H. Losten, the eparch emeritus of the Ukrainian Eparchy of ...

This commonality of ideals and principles was perhaps articulated most effectively in an encyclical titled "On the Development of Peoples" disseminated by Pope Paul VI in 1967. In the late 1960s, when ...

Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? Or too Pope-dependent, to put it another way. It wasn’t always so. These ...

It’s been asserted only twice, to establish the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary in 1854 and the Assumption of Mary in 1950. Even the Vatican agreed it did not apply when Pope Paul VI ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died aged 95, Vatican News has announced. The pope died at 12:30 pm Kenyan time in his residence at the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. A statement from Vatican ...

Gidget and T.J. hooker. Actor James Darren has died at the age of 88. That's according to reporting from variety, which says he died yesterday in an L.A. hospital. Darren had a lengthy resume ...