Elected with a two-thirds-plus-one vote on the 11th ballot among 50 fellow cardinals on October 28, 1958, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the eldest son (and third of thirteen children) of poor tenant ...

Monsignor A. Anthony Frecker was a grade-school student considering the priesthood in 1958 when the Roman Catholic Church elected the pope who has become one of his personal heroes. More than 50 years ...

Pope John XXIII, who will be canonized Sunday with Pope John Paul II, was a revolutionary in his own right. Elected at age 76 to be a caretaker pope, John promptly upended expectations by calling the ...

On Thursday morning, a small convoy with police protection will depart from the Vatican bound for the northern Italian city of Bergamo, almost six and a half hours away. In a sense, it’s actually a ...

There's never been much doubt that Pope John Paul II was destined for sainthood. In more than a quarter-century as the head of the Holy See, he left such an indelible mark that at his funeral in 2005, ...