This is the final article in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. Popular and controversial, innovative and traditional. Contrasts and contradictions like these have
Shutterstock This is the 11th in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series is appearing monthly throughout 2018. When the time comes, obituaries will speak of Pope Benedict XVI
CNS file photo This is the 10th in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series is appeared monthly throughout 2018. Sometimes it seemed as if Pope St. John Paul
This is the ninth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series is appearing monthly throughout 2018. When the cardinals gathered to choose a successor to Pope Paul VI,
This is the eighth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. In the 40 years since his death in August 1978, Blessed Pope Paul
This is the seventh in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. The story goes that when Cardinal Angelo Roncalli of Venice boarded the train
This is the sixth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. On Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world
This is the fifth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. Although he surely didn’t intend it, Joseph Stalin’s cynical question — “How many
This is the fourth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared each month throughout 2018. “Are there are any Catholics here?” Given the setting — the Vatican’s
This is the third in a series that will look at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series will run in the first issue of each month throughout 2018. Coming to the throne