Pope

The Immaculate Conception: A Marvelous Theme

December 8, 2025

The Immaculate Conception: A Marvelous Theme – Continued

December 8, 2025

December 10 – To protest the emperor, he paid special honor to images and relics

December 8, 2025

December 10 – The First Pope to Live in a Palace

December 8, 2025

Christ the King? Or Christ the President?

November 23, 2025

November 21 – Pope St. Gelasius I

November 20, 2025

November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

November 10, 2025

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

November 3, 2025

October 26 – Laid to rest next to St. Peter

October 23, 2025

October 26 – Bl. Celina Chludzińska v. Borzęcka

October 23, 2025

October 18 – Adopted nobility

October 16, 2025

October 11 – He dared step into the gap during the crisis

October 9, 2025

October 2 – The Holy Guardian Angels

October 2, 2025

October 1 – St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Chapter VI: A Pilgrimage to Rome & Chapter VII: The Little Flower Enters the Carmel

September 29, 2025

Tradition is a fertile patrimony, an inheritance that must be preserved

September 25, 2025

September 24 – Our Lady of Ransom

September 22, 2025

September 24 – “There is nothing so sublime as the papacy nor so exalted as the imperial throne”

September 22, 2025

Pope Pius IX Loses Rome: The Porta Pia Is Breached and the Papal Zouaves Lay Down Their Weapons

September 18, 2025

September 20 – “Threats do not terrify me”

September 18, 2025

September 21 – Pope Conon

September 18, 2025

September 16 – The pope who exacted tribute from the Mohammedan ruler of Tunis

September 15, 2025

September 11 – Italian army invades the Papal State without a declaration of war

September 11, 2025

September 12 – The Holy Name of the Virgin Mary; in thanksgiving for the victory over the Turks at Vienna

September 11, 2025

September 14 – Pope Adrian VI

September 11, 2025

September 8 – He added the Agnus Dei to the Mass

September 8, 2025

September 4 – Pope Saint Boniface I

September 4, 2025

The King of Italy sends an ultimatum to Blessed Pope Pius IX

September 4, 2025

September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 4, 2025

September 3 – All the principles of Catholicism can be found in his life

September 1, 2025

August 29 – At the helm during the French Revolution

August 28, 2025

August 22 – The pope who preached a Crusade against the German Emperor Frederick II

August 18, 2025

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 11, 2025

August 13 – The Pope Who Resigned

August 11, 2025

August 9 – Pope St. Victor I

August 7, 2025

August 5 – Our Lady of the Snow

August 4, 2025

August 2 – Resisted the Emperor’s demand

July 31, 2025

July 28 – Nepotism Sometimes Bears Good Fruit

July 28, 2025

Pontifical Orders and Titles of Nobility

July 21, 2025

How Napoleon’s Man Arrested the Pope

July 17, 2025

July 7 – Only two cardinals dared to stand with the pope

July 7, 2025

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 7, 2025

July 4 – Pope in Very Critical Circumstances

July 3, 2025

June 28 – To Avoid Their Desecration, He Ordered the Relics of the Saints to be Brought Inside the Walls

June 26, 2025

The Church is Not Opposed to Any Form of Government that Is Just and Serves the Common Good

June 26, 2025

June 15 – The Northern Crusades

June 12, 2025

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 9, 2025

June 2 – Saved from the Byzantine Emperor’s roaster, ironically, by the Moslems

June 2, 2025

Leo XIV: A Touch of Aristocracy?

May 26, 2025

King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium Join World Leaders at Pope Leo’s Inauguration

May 22, 2025

May 24 – Our Lady Help of Christians, to commemorate the liberation of the Pope from prison

May 22, 2025

May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow

May 22, 2025

May 25 – First Pope to transform a pagan temple of Rome into a Christian church

May 22, 2025

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 15, 2025

May 12 – First French Pope

May 12, 2025

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 28, 2025

April 27 – Intimate friend of St. Philip Neri

April 24, 2025

April 10 – Pope Gregory XIII

April 10, 2025

April 12 – Pope St. Julius I

April 10, 2025

April 3 – Pope Honorius IV

April 3, 2025

March 27 – The Last French Pope

March 27, 2025

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