While some Jewish leaders condemned the pope’s recent remarks on Israel, others believe that Catholic-Jewish relations can ...

II, #239, pp. 189-90). Pius XII mentioned this privilege in 1950 and thus lent it credence and authority. In his words: "This most kind mother will not be tardy in using her intercession with God to ...

Opinion - The star is not John Dramani Mahama, who has just been sworn in as the President of Ghana even if he too is a ...

In 1950, Pope Pius XII defined Mary's Assumption into heaven as a dogma of Roman Catholicism: "the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was ...

Ghana has invested considerably in recording, documenting, archiving and developing museums, sites and intellectual spaces.

“Love is heaven; marriage is hell,” wrote Lord Byron ... To this future pope (Pius XII), my husband expounded his views, and to his joy, received from the future Pontiff a full endorsement ...

In the United States, they built the first Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in the Roxbury section of Boston, and it was eventually raised to the honor of a “Papal Basilica” by Pope Pius XII.

Unlike his predecessor, the scholarly and aloof Pius XII, John lets his interests range ... from the young innocents to the old. rises toward heaven: ‘Peace! Peace!'” Even Nikita Khrushchev ...

It is believed, according to centuries-old tradition as well as Catholic dogma proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1950, that Mary’s body died and was buried but was “assumed” into Heaven rather than ...

Eugenio Pacelli joined the Secretariat of State in February 1901. In 1911 he was appointed undersecretary of the First Section, Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and on February 1, ...