The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

Bettmann / Getty Under a watchful eye, John F Kennedy chose not to kiss the ring of Pope Paul VI In 1963, US President John F Kennedy, a Catholic, deliberately chose not to kiss the ring of Pope ...

Announcer: In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued an encyclical to Roman Catholics. In it he upheld the prohibition of all artificial means of contraception. Many Catholic priests throughout the world were ...

A reverent drama about the life of Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. Cary Elwes portrays Wojtyla as a younger man; Jon Voight plays him in his later years. The story begins with the ...

July 25 marks the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's encyclical on married love and ... I don't think Catholics around the world knew its full impact. I think in order to understand 'Humanae ...

There were a few voices that warned the world about the dangers of artificial contraception, but the most notable was Pope Paul VI. Mocked for his “Humanae Vitae” encyclical in 1968 ...

Patriarch Athenagoras I stating his full agreement with Pope Paul VI said: “He could not have spoken in any other way.” The controversy produced by Humane Vitae is an expression of the ...

Those of us old enough to remember the fall of 1979 will never forget the one month papacy of John-Paul I. Who would have believed a healthy looking pontiff would die only weeks after being ...

Francis is experiencing a level of reproach that some observers say is the fiercest since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church ...

This commonality of ideals and principles was perhaps articulated most effectively in an encyclical titled "On the Development of Peoples" disseminated by Pope Paul VI in 1967. In the late 1960s, when ...

Pope Francis meets with other delegates of the Synod on Synodality at a roundtable discussion in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican ... but also as delegates with full participation alongside bishops ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After members of the Synod of Bishops approved their final document, Pope Francis announced ... the first synods convoked by St. Paul VI in 1967 and 1971, all ordinary ...