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(Photo: Lightstock) Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88. The Archdiocese of Denver invites all the...

(Photo: Pexels) “His office let another take.”   St. Peter, our first Pope, quoted Psalm 109:8 to his fellow apostles after the Ascension...

Pope Francis washes the foot of a refugee during Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Center for Asylum Seekers in Castelnuovo...

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 5, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (Photo: Vatican...

(Video courtesy of Mary Krolicki) As the news of Pope Francis' death made its way around the world yesterday, a wave of grief followed...

The body of Pope Francis lies in state at the Vatican's Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, surrounded by Swiss Guards, cardinals, and Vatican...

Candles with Pope Francis’ image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA) The Vatican...

Images of Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and Pope Francis during a visit to Rome with the Papal Foundation in 2024. (Photo: Vatican Media)...

(Photo: Lightstock) Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space...

It wasn’t his first salvation in the camp, nor his last. Franciszek Gajowniczek, the man for whom St. Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his...

(Photo: Pixabay) After defining , within strict limits, the infallibility of papal teaching on faith and morals, the First Vatican...

The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco by Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, in Salone Sistino...