In his prayer intention for the last month of 2024, Pope Francis called for the upcoming Jubilee of hope to strengthen the Christian faith. He urged Catholics to embrace hope as a transformative ...

Later, Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) would give formal expression to this claim when he ... If the liberal Catholic movement ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little ...

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception was proclaimed by Pope Pius IX in 1854. Four years later, little Bernadette of Lourdes, who knew nothing of theological vocabulary, received confirmation of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped a Southwest Florida resident for one of his latest appointments. Trump on Sunday ...

You don’t have to be Catholic to have heard the phrase “Immaculate Conception.” References often appear in pop culture and ...

The Church initiated the tradition of the Holy Year in 1300 with Pope Boniface VIII, who envisioned a Jubilee every century.

On the occasion of the Jubilee 2025, Rome is preparing to welcome millions of pilgrims from around the world to visit some of ...

Hojat al-Islam Mohammad Taher Rabbani, former ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Vatican, shared his ...

Those beatified include 205 missionaries and hidden Christians persecuted and executed for their faith between 1598 and 1632. Pope Pius IX beatified them on May 7, 1867. Between 1603 and 1639, 188 ...

But a papal bull issued by Pope Pius IX on July 16, 1935 already defined and declared that the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Guadalupe, is before God “The Celestial Patroness of the ...