Pope John XXIII, who, by convening the Ecumenical Council called Vatican II, set in motion ideas and forces that will affect not merely ... that he ranks him as “one of the truly great Popes ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped ...

Historian Yvonnick Denoël delves into recently declassified documents for his book 'Vatican Spies', revealing an intricate ...

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Long before I was born, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, my not-yet Dad memorized the eye chart (E FP TOZ LPED) which he couldn’t really see, so he could get into the Army in World War ... Pope ...

It was the year of the bad war, of complex innocence that sanctified ... first established by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1963 during the II Vatican Council. There had been discussions and delays ...

There are many strategy games that have used the setting of World War 1 to great effect, and one such title that falls into this category is The Great War: Western Front. This strategy game does a ...

Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, on Thursday, expressed concern about “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war” at a New Year ... leader not only of some 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide ...

Pope Francis on Thursday called for global dialogue with the view to preventing world war. This is as he expressed concern about the increasingly concrete threat of a world war at a New Year’s ...

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One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...