Pope St. John Paul II

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — Before he started his general audience, Pope Leo XIV stepped out of his popemobile on May 13 and walked over to pray beside a plaque marking …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marking the anniversary of the attempted assassination of St. John Paul II and the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Leo XIV said Mary is …

Organizers said the lives of the patron saints reflected on issues relevant today, including persecution, migration and social struggle.

As pope, John Paul II held a tradition of writing a Holy Thursday letter to priests his entire pontificate.

The 118,000-square-foot shrine is located in the city’s Brookland section, affectionately called “Little Rome” for the many Catholic institutions located there.

It took a change in Church leadership in Kraków to open archdiocesan archives — a move announced by Cardinal Grzegorz Rys on Jan. 30.

In its 1965 declaration “Nostra Aetate,” the Second Vatican Council affirmed the spiritual patrimony between Christians and Jews.

So what are we doing on a mountaintop in the early days of Lent?

Catholic leaders were among those who praised the legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and prominent civil rights leader, who died Feb. 17. He was 84.

Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history.