Because while papal blessings might be good for the soul, what Nigeria needs right now is leadership good for its soil – leadership that plants the seeds of genuine development, waters them with ...

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

Although the new pope never spoke that evening in English, we were thrilled to receive the papal blessing. The entire experience was amazing and something we will never forget. Ed and Arlene ...

There is to be no blessing of a new home unless those who will live in it are present. A minister who is a priest or deacon greets those present in the following or other suitable words ...

− In the early 1960s, while his brothers played tag in their Chicago neighborhood, 6-year-old Robert Prevost preferred to play priest ... made history during the papal conclave on Thursday ...

GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the ...

“I have in my office … a papal blessing that my mother sent away for to the Vatican from Pope Paul VI, who visited Australia, of course, and went to my street, Pyrmont Bridge Road ...