Pope Leo XIV has received a rock star's welcome at the Vatican’s festival of Catholic influencers. He met Tuesday with ...

Half a million young people are expected to pour into Rome next week for the biggest event of the 2025 Holy Year. The weeklong Jubilee celebration for young Catholics will sorely test their ...

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Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling ...

The photograph taken in 1996 shows Gene Greytak, a man who impersonated Pope John Paul II. In July 2025, a photo circulated online that claimed to show Pope John Paul II playing baseball. The ...

The tiny, but vocal group of Catholics trying to perpetuate the Tridentine Rite are pressuring Pope Leo to stop phasing out the celebration of the pre-Vatican II liturgy.

Then I watched the somewhat better, but hardly perfect, papacy of Pope John Paul II. I came to understand that the pope of my childhood, Pope Pius XII, was not a particularly good guy.

With interstates closed and hundreds of thousands of people in attendance, KCCI got creative with our coverage of Pope John Paul II — including one staffer who was literally running tape down ...

Pope Leo XIV waves to people from the terrace of the summer papal estate where he arrives for a two-week stay in Castel Gandolfo, 25 miles southeast of Rome, on July 6, 2025.

It wasn’t until 1984 that President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II established full diplomatic ties.

John Paul II and Benedict XVI set up camp there for several months each year to rest, but also work. Then along came Pope Francis.