National Catholic Register

Saint Celestine V and the Catholic Church’s First Jubilee

Celestine‘s indulgence was exceptional at the time, given it was available to anyone, regardless of status or wealth, and cost nothing except personal repentance at a time when indulgences were often ...
CNN

Echoes of past in pope’s resignation

Does Celestine's reference to "malignity" of people find echo in Benedict's resignation letter? Perry: Some guess pope is fleeing scandal-plagued church; others think he seeks tranquility On July 4, ...
National Catholic Reporter

Blast from the Past: Pope Celestine V

“Celestine was a visionary, the founder of a brotherhood of hermits with strong links to the radical Franciscans. He therefore represented precisely that dimension of the thirteenth-century Church ...
National Catholic Reporter

Pope who quit is patron saint of Benedict's 'interior reform'

For the second time in fourteen months, Benedict XVI has paid homage to a predecessor who quit the papacy after only five months, spurning the power struggles and regal trappings which surrounded it: ...
patheos

The Real Celestine Prophecy

The Celestine Prophecy is a New Age spirituality title that has nothing to do with Pope Celestine V. Instead of the New Age novel I’m interested in Pope Celestine. Why is Pope Celestine V–who only ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Popes who quit: Looking back at Celestine V and Benedict XVI

On 29 April 2009, Benedict visited Celestine's tomb in his native L'Aquila. The pope removed the pallium from around his shoulders and, without explanation, laid it on Celestine's tomb. As is now ...
America Magazine

Pope Francis prays at tomb of Celestine V, urges mercy and humility

Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope who resigned, at the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L'Aquila, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican ...
Rappler

Two popes, two resignations: Benedict XVI and Celestine V

The shy, retiring Pope Benedict XVI has much in common with 13th-century "humble hermit" Celestine V who quit the papacy after only five months, fed up with Vatican machinations. VATICAN CITY – The ...
Oregonian

Celestine V, one of the last popes to resign, met with bitter end

In the wake of Pope Benedict's resignation today, Celestine V has been invoked as the last pontiff to resign – in the 13th century. Strictly speaking, it was probably Pope Gregory XII, who resigned in ...
America Magazine

Was it Celestine V or Gregory XII?

Amid all the media hype and need to find out esoteric Christian historical and canonical information on short notice yesterday following Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he will resign from his ...
National Catholic Register

Celestine’s Basilica Battered

One of the Italy’s most famous basilicas, Santa Maria di Collemaggio, was very badly damaged in yesterday’s earthquake in Italy. Founded in the late 1200s by Pope Celestine V — the only pope ever to ...