Pius XII had a deep personal devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and from early in his pontificate was frequent in promoting love and veneration to her among the faithful. In the Silver Jubilee year ...

Not so Pope Francis this week. It was not a spokesman, but the Pope himself, and his letter was drafted in the form customary ...

He died on August 19, 1680 and was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 31 ... unite mankind to God through Mary's heart, and this process involves the ideas of consecration and reparation.

1944: Pius XII approved the consecration of Venezuela to Our Lady of Coromoto ... 1931: (Former and still retained in some areas) Feast of the Motherhood of Mary established by Pope Pius XI, on the ...

There are four dogmas stating Mary's personal relationship with God ... 4) The Assumption This marian dogma was proclaimed by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950 on his Encyclical Munificentissimus ...

The Erection of the new Diocese of Lüliang The appointment and consecration ... On October 28, Pope Francis, in view of the episcopal appointment of Anthony Ji, first suppressed the diocese of Fenyang ...

(photo: Vatican Media / VM) AC Wimmer/CNA Vatican February 1, 2025 Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion ...

Many welcomed his opening of the documents concerning Pope Pius XII’s leadership and silences during the Holocaust — Pius never publicly condemned the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

Eugenio Pacelli joined the Secretariat of State in February 1901. In 1911 he was appointed undersecretary of the First Section, Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and on February 1, ...

Yet it has not always been this way. It was only with Pope Pius IX in the mid-19th century that the papacy would become so visible. He was the first to have his picture widely displayed in ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic Church celebrates a special Jubilee year, which takes place every quarter of ...

World War II–era Pope Pius XII is a controversial figure, long accused of indifference toward the plight of Holocaust-assailed Jews. But a "Jewish New Yorker who has made it his life's work to ...