Pope indicates new governing style for Catholic Church with regular, annual cardinal meetings

Pope Leo XIV says he intends to bring the world’s Catholic cardinals together on an annual basis. He's indicating a new ...
Catholic News Agency

Pope Leo XIV revives tradition during first Christmas of his pontificate

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate his first Christmas at the Vatican by reviving the tradition of offering Christmas Mass on Dec. 25 in St. Peter’s Basilica, something no pope has done since 1994. The ...
National Catholic Register

Pope Leo XIV Highlights Key Virtues of Saint Joseph for Final Days of Advent

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday highlighted four virtues of St. Joseph — “piety and charity, mercy and trust” — as guides for Catholics in the final days of Advent leading up to Christmas. Speaking during his ...
Sports Illustrated

Rick Pitino says Mark Pope has completely changed the identity of this Kentucky team

Kentucky has now won back-to-back games in very similar fashion, and it's all thanks to "smash mouth basketball," as Mark Pope says. Against Indiana, the Wildcats shot just 3-15 from three-point range ...
CBSSports.com

Mark Pope details Kentucky's 'unlimited potential,' bond with Rick Pitino ahead of St. John's clash

Blunt-force honesty has been a trademark of Rick Pitino and Mark Pope's relationship dating back to the early 1990s when Pope was a blossoming recruit. It was Pitino ...
New York Post

Rick Pitino gave Mark Pope an endorsement. In St. John’s-Kentucky, he might get some healing

Kentucky coach Mark Pope shares a hug with Rick Pitino during the Wildcats' Big Blue Madness event on Oct. 11, 2024. Getty Images While fans and media members were compiling dream lists of coaching ...
New York Post

Cardinal Dolan emotionally welcomes Illinois Bishop Ronald Hicks as new Archbishop of New York

Timothy Cardinal Dolan shared a warm embrace with his successor, Bishop Ronald Hicks, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Thursday as the New York archbishop’s 16-year tenure came to an end. Dolan, 75, made ...
Reuters

Pope Leo decries leaders who invoke religion for violence and nationalism

VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Thursday decried political leaders who invoke religious beliefs to justify conflicts or nationalist policies, calling that a form of blasphemy, or a ...
The Courier-Journal

Mark Pope, Rick Pitino enter Kentucky-St. John’s game in need of win

Both teams have underperformed this season, with Kentucky basketball falling from No. 9 to unranked. Mark Pope has to find a way to get the Kentucky offense in sync against a vulnerable St. John's ...
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WATCH: Mark Pope talks Jayden Quaintance, Rick Pitino, and St. John's

Another massive opportunity awaits Kentucky men’s basketball this weekend. Up next for the Wildcats will be the No. 22 St. John’s Red Storm (7-3), coached by none other than former Kentucky/Louisville ...
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Mark Pope on the emotions of facing Rick Pitino, who recently told him to 'get his act together'

Mark Pope has coached against Rick Pitino just once, in his first season as a head coach at Utah Valley. Pope’s team lost to Pitino’s Louisville squad by 30 on that day in 2015. Ten years later, it’s ...