In the 2024 edition of the “Annuario Pontificio,” or Pontifical Yearbook, released this week, Pope Francis reinstated the ancient, honorary pontifical title of “Patriarch of the West,” reversing Pope ...

With Pope Francis’s death on Monday, April 21, 2025, the Roman Catholic Church around the world is entering a period of mourning. That mourning period that will culminate in the election of a new ...

On Feb. 7, the Catholic Church remembers Blessed Pius IX, “Pius Nono,” the 255th pope. His pontificate is the second longest in history — a total of 31 years, seven months, and 22 days (June 16, ...

Throughout the extensive history of the Church, there have been numerous events of lasting significance. Each week marks anniversaries of impressive milestones, unforgettable tragedies, amazing ...

Tyler M. Duvelius resides in Franklin County's Prairie Township with his wife and daughter. They are parishioners at St. Simon and Jude Church in West Jefferson. Three words were uttered by Pope ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too ...

A century ago, in his Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX condemned the thesis that the Roman Catholic Church should accommodate itself to the modern world. Last week the bishops of the Second Vatican ...

Pius XI began last week in strictly routine fashion in Vatican City and ended it by making papal history in the Alban Hills. Never a man to coddle himself even in hottest August weather, he studied ...

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years. March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest ...

A depiction of the assassination of Pellegrino Rossi on Nov. 15, 1848. (Credit: Wiki commons.) Listen ROME – In what’s been taken as the latest turning point in Pope Francis’s campaign to empower ...