05/29/2026
Today, we celebrate the feast day of Pope St. Paul VI.
Elected to succeed Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI presided over the last three sessions of the Second Vatican Council. His pontificate would ultimately prove consequential in guiding the Church forward in the post-conciliar era.
His most consequential encyclical, Humanae Vitae, meaningfully upholds the Church’s teaching on human sexuality and the dignity of marriage and family life. Another of his encyclicals, Evangelii Nutiandi, would lay the ground work for what we know today as the New Evangelization, which became central to the magisterium of Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, & Leo XIV.
May Pope St. Paul VI continue to intercede for the Church in her mission to proclaim Christ anew in the world today!
Vivat Jesus!