Beatifying Blessed Paul VI at the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis praised the late pope as the "great helmsman" of the Second Vatican Council and founder of the ...

VATICAN CITY — Blessed Paul VI was a missionary Pope who wished to bring the light of the Gospel all over the world, a cardinal who worked with him recalled. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray ...

Pope Paul VI’s life of heroic virtue will be recognized by the Church in his beatification Sunday at the Vatican. While he is perhaps best known for his decisive 1968 encyclical on the ...

Bl. Paul VI was the first 'modern man' to be elected Bishop of Rome, and he put the Church in conversation with the world in order to build a dialogue of salvation, a cardinal who was one of ...

Pope Francis visits the tomb of Blessed Pope Paul VI in the Vatican Grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica August 6, 2017. (Credit: ‘L’Osservatore Romano’.) Listen ROME – On Sunday Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Thirteen years before his death, Blessed Paul VI had written to the dean of the College of Cardinals to say that if he were to become seriously ill or impeded from exercising ...

Paul VI, and recently recounted the story behind the blessed Pope's 1968 encyclical which was received with widespread dissent. In drafting Humanae vitae, his encyclical on the regulation of birth ...

Beatifying Blessed Paul VI at the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops on the family, Pope Francis praised the late pope as the "great helmsman" of the Second Vatican Council and founder of ...

When Pope Francis celebrates mass at Madison Square Garden on Friday, he's expected to honor his predecessor, Blessed Paul VI, in both words and deeds. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Paul's ...

It was a whirlwind 14 hours that sent the city into a frenzy. On Oct. 4, 1965, Blessed Pope Paul VI became the first sitting Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere, and he dedicated his entire 14 ...

Thirteen years before his death, Blessed Paul VI had written to the dean of the College of Cardinals to say that if he were to become seriously ill or impeded from exercising his ministry ...