ROME—Dozens of Filipino priests in Rome marked their college’s 65th anniversary with a pilgrimage to northern Italy. Their ...

Archbishop Roncalli also played an important humanitarian role in relation to other minority groups, particularly helping Jewish refugees from Poland flee their homeland during World War II. Statue of ...

The Vatican announced today that both Pope John Paul II and one of his predecessors, Pope John XXIII, will be canonized as Roman Catholic saints, even though one of them has not met the usual ...

I love reading other people’s resolutions and their personal commandments, and I was very interested to read the daily decalogue of Pope John XXIII (a "decalogue" is a set of rules having ...

There's never been much doubt that Pope John Paul II was destined for sainthood. In more than a quarter-century as the head of the Holy See, he left such an indelible mark that at his funeral in 2005, ...

During the ceremony, relics of the new saints — John Paul's blood and a piece of John XXIII's skin taken after his body was exhumed — were brought to the altar ...

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII directly addressed social justice issues affecting poor and oppressed working people in the industrial ...