After the traditional announcement of "Habemus Papam" – "We have a pope" – from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the new ...

A Pope Francis II would signify continuity, while a choice like Pius would be a clear signal that a traditionalist is taking ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

When a new pope is elected, one of his first decisions is to choose a regnal name — a symbolic gesture that reveals spiritual ...

The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular ... in Germany to my dining hall and hoisted me out of a pagan hellscape. The pope is the guiding light for those of us here ...

Keywords: pope papacy blessed virgin mary mother of the church Grady Connolly Grady Connolly is the founder and president of Social Thomist, a Catholic social media company working with clergy ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... Athenagoras (177) in his "A Plea on Behalf of Christians" (a defense against paganism) emphasized that Christians consider ...

From Pius to Clement, Hilarius to Simplicius, papal names through the centuries are inextricably linked to the brilliant or ...

For most of the Catholic Church’s first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century Roman Mercurius, who had been named for a pagan god and chose the more ...

The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...