Pope

January 24 – Otto III

January 20, 2022

January 24 – Cardinal Ercole Consalvi

January 20, 2022

January 24 – Pope Stephen (IV) V and the confusion of counting the Popes Stephen

January 20, 2022

January 20 – A dove landed on his head, and you would not believe what happened next!

January 17, 2022

January 16 – When the Emperor insisted that the lapsed be readmitted to communion without penance, one man stood in his way. This is his story.

January 13, 2022

January 5 – Pope St. Telesphorus

January 3, 2022

The Second Vatican Council – Continued

December 16, 2021

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 16, 2021

December 19 – Pope St. Anastasius I

December 16, 2021

Astonishing Calamities in the Church’s Post-Conciliar Phase

December 9, 2021

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

December 9, 2021

December 10 – The First Pope to Live in a Palace

December 9, 2021

December 11 – Pope Falsely Accused of Adultery

December 9, 2021

December 13 – Elected Pope to Fight the Emperor

December 9, 2021

The Second Vatican Council

December 2, 2021

4. The Third Revolution’s Psychological Offensive Within The Church

November 25, 2021

November 21 – Pope St. Gelasius I

November 18, 2021

November 13 – One of the Great Popes of the Middle Ages

November 11, 2021

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

November 8, 2021

As Catholic Europe Abandons Pius IX, the Coeur d’Alènes Offer to Fight for Him

November 4, 2021

October 26 – Laid to rest next to St. Peter

October 21, 2021

October 18 – Adopted nobility

October 14, 2021

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

October 7, 2021

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

September 23, 2021

September 21 – Pope Conon

September 20, 2021

September 19 – The Pope asks Princess Mary to marry James II of England

September 16, 2021

September 20 – “Threats do not terrify me”

September 16, 2021

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

September 13, 2021

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

September 9, 2021

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

September 9, 2021

Video – Redefeating the Turks: the Battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683

September 9, 2021

September 7 – The Outrage of Anagni

September 6, 2021

September 8 – He added the Agnus Dei to the Mass

September 6, 2021

September 4 – Pope Saint Boniface I

September 2, 2021

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

August 30, 2021

August 29 – At the helm during the French Revolution

August 26, 2021

August 22 – The Queenship of Mary

August 19, 2021

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

August 19, 2021

August 13 – The Pope Who Resigned

August 12, 2021

August 12 – His pontificate was spent in opposing royal absolutism

August 9, 2021

August 6 – Noble widower made pope

August 5, 2021

August 7 – Pope St. Sixtus II

August 5, 2021

August 9 – Pope St. Victor I

August 5, 2021

August 2 – Resisted the Emperor’s demand

July 29, 2021

July 28 – Nepotism Sometimes Bears Good Fruit

July 26, 2021

July 29 – With one sermon, he launched the Crusades

July 26, 2021

July 17 – When the Saracens attacked Rome…

July 15, 2021

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

July 5, 2021

July 8 – The Pope who fought the democrats

July 5, 2021

July 3 – The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor for Not Opposing Heresy

July 1, 2021

June 28 – He fought to preserve the Pope’s independence

June 24, 2021

June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

June 17, 2021

June 16 – Pope Innocent III

June 14, 2021

June 17, 1793: Pius VI condemns the revolutionary concepts of liberty and equality

June 14, 2021

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 10, 2021

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

May 31, 2021

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

May 24, 2021

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

May 24, 2021

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

May 20, 2021

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 17, 2021

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