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Pope receives cake and glad tidings on the 12th anniversary of his papacy, marked in the hospital
• Mar. 13, 2025, 11:52 PM ET (AP)
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• Mar. 6, 2025, 11:04 PM ET (AP)
The pope is in stable condition as the Catholic Church opens the season of Lent
• Mar. 5, 2025, 1:10 PM ET (AP)
These nuns advocated for immigrant rights for 40 years — now in their 90s, they’re not slowing down
• Mar. 5, 2025, 8:04 AM ET (AP)
Pope stable with no new respiratory crises but will sleep with ventilation mask, Vatican says
• Mar. 4, 2025, 8:18 PM ET (AP)
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- The Advocatus Diaboli ("Devil's Advocate") was an official who would critically examine a canonization candidate's life.
- John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to be president of the United States.
- In 2014, Porsche rented out the Sistine Chapel for a charity event.
- The big bang theory was proposed by a monsignor of the Catholic Church, Georges LeMaitre.
- William Tyndale was deemed a heretic for translating the New Testament into modern English.
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Key People

Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]

Saint John XXIII
pope

St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint

Mary I
queen of England

Henry IV
king of France

Girolamo Savonarola
Italian preacher

St. John Henry Newman
British theologian

Jan Hus
Bohemian religious leader

Mary
queen of Scotland

James II
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland

John Wycliffe
English theologian

Clovis I
Merovingian king

St. Leo IX
pope

Alessandro Farnese
regent of The Netherlands

Innocent IV
pope

Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian

St. Peter Damian
Italian cardinal

Saint Pius V
pope

Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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