The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about ...
Pope Benedict XVI’s mostly warm but sometimes chilly relationship with the worldwide Jewish community may have just hit a major ice patch. On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet ...
As part of its broader reckoning with the Catholic Church's colonial past, the Vatican in 2023 formally repudiated the ...
Pope Francis, in a letter to U.S. bishops this past week, cited a 1952 document issued by Pope Pius XII, saying it “is considered the ‘Magna Carta’ of the Church’s thinking on migration.” The “Great ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case, it took only two days for Catholic cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Francis. That's among the shortest conclaves in ...
Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, has died at 88. He was the Catholic Church’s 266th pope, known for his compassion for the marginalized. TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Pope Francis, the first ...