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Dr. Gregory Popcak is the Founder and Executive Director of the Pastoral Solutions Institute, and the author of twenty popular books and programs integrating Catholic theology and counseling psychology. Together with his wife, he hosts More2Life Radio, a call-in, advice program heard M-F at 10am E/ 9amC on almost 400...

Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, 1927-2022) was a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that...

Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 1936-2025) was the head of the Catholic Church from 2013-2025. Francis was the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory...

Pope Gregory I (540-604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the sixty-fourth Bishop of Rome from 590 to his death. He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more...

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005), born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005. (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

Pope Leo I (c. 400-461), also known as Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from until his death. He is the first of the three Popes listed in the Annuario Pontificio with the title "the Great," alongside Popes Gregory I and Nicholas I. He is a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which...

David Popiashvili (1969–2025) was a Georgian painter, restorer, pedagogue, and scenographer, and a distinguished member of the Georgian Artists' Union. His work was exhibited continuously at Art Gallery Line in Tbilisi from 2003 to 2025, and his international exhibition history spanned Japan, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia, and...

Aurelio Porfiri is an Italian composer, choral conductor, organist, educator, and author. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College London in Music Composition, and was formerly substitute organist of the Vatican City Vicariate in Saint Peter's Basilica, as well as many notable churches in Rome. He has taught and...

Doug Porter is a video artist who serves on the worship committee at First CRC Orillia, Ontario. (Source: reformedworship.org)

Dr. Anathea Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School. She graduated from Yale University, Graduate Theological Union/Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and Duke University. She specializes in biblical prophetic literature, early Jewish apocalyptic literature and novellas, and historiographic literature of the late second temple period....