Yes, music is a big passion of mine! Well, I’ve had my share of great holiday music over the last few weeks courtesy of Pope County students. It started with the 9th-12th grade Fall Band Concert, Nov.

After finishing his discourse, the Pope took a moment to acknowledge how April 2 marks the 9th anniversary of Bl. John Paul II’s death, stating that the occasion “directs our thoughts to the day of ...

pointing to the pontiff’s tendency to quote New Testament passages that portray Pharisees and rabbis in a negative light. “[Pope] Benedict would never have done that.” Rosen sees a worrying ...

The connection between popes and cars was made in the U.S., when the archbishop of New York gifted Pope Pius X an Itala 20/30 in 1909, even though it was seldom used. Pope Pius XI favored Mercedes ...

Since the 1950s, beginning with Pope Pius XII in 1953, it has been customary for popes to venerate the statue for the feast day. At 7 a.m., Rome’s firefighters had continued their own decades ...

The Mass honored one of the Church’s most significant Marian feasts, commemorating the dogma formally defined by Pope Pius IX in 1854 that the Blessed Virgin Mary was preserved free from ...

According to CBS News, the first “official” popemobile was a custom Mercedes-Benz Nurburg 460 Pullman gifted to Pope Pius XI in 1930, featuring silk carpets and embossed doves in the interior. Later ...

Pope Francis has received the first-ever all-electric popemobile from automaker Mercedes-Benz. The open-top vehicle, which for the last 45 years has been manufactured by the German luxury ...

Mercedes-Benz has been manufacturing and supplying vehicles for the popes for nearly 100 years, the company said, starting with a Nürburg 460 Pullman Saloon for Pope Pius XI in 1930. The German ...

This is the ninth time Pitt has received the award since 2013. The Fulbright Program, founded by the U.S. government in 1946, awards about 9,000 merit scholarships per year to students and scholars to ...