On a Wednesday night in late October 2022, I knelt in the small basement chapel at Williams College in Massachusetts, where I was a junior. Sweaty, shaky and beyond nervous, I began to pray the rosary ...
From 1846 to 1903, the Catholic Church enjoyed the enduringly long pontificates of two popes: Pius IX and Leo XIII. The conclave of 1878 was the first to assemble after the capture of Rome and the ...