The goal of this event is to pray — and to pray in a specifically Catholic way,” Catholics for Catholics President John Yep ...

Caesar v. God. Pius XI was “the Pope of Missions.” He was also a “Pope of Saints,” canonizing during his reign some of the most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette ...

Pius XI’s papal reign (1922–39) officially began on 6 February 1922. It may seem an unlikely event to tie into Irish history, but there are a number of compelling reasons as to why it is a ...

The gathering was to be held in a week and a half in St. Peter’s Basilica, on Feb. 11, 1939. It would mark the 10th anniversary of the Lateran Accords, the historic agreement that Pius XI had struck ...

Pius XI. is a man of wide learning and many gifts ... The significance of his bestowal of the blessing urbi et orbi from the exterior balcony of St Peter’s, for the first time since the loss of the ...

This sacred event aimed to renew the faith of Ireland while honoring the enduring missionary legacy of St. Patrick by ...

Blessed Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, went on to dedicate an encyclical letter to devotion to St. Joseph — Quamquam ...