COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul ...

With the passing of Pope John Paul II, the world has lost a moral leader fervently committed to fighting the prejudice and hatred that led to the Holocaust. Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born and raised in ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

WORCESTER – Ayden Wise is not apprehensive about the Pope John Paul II boys basketball team being the new face in the Pioneer Athletic Conference’s Liberty Division. “It’s definitely more ...

Pope John Paul II had a deep affection and devotion for Our Lady of Guadalupe. During his papacy, he visited Mexico in 1979, where he had a historic encounter with the image of Holy Mary at the ...

Pope John Paul II was set to visit Iraq in 1999 as part of a tour of the region’s major holy sites, but a diplomatic dispute between Iraq and the Holy See put an end to the plans.

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, was named by Pope Francis on Jan. 6, 2025 as the ...

The following pages highlight anniversaries of memorable events that occurred this week in Christian history. They include the death of John Emory, Pope John Paul II apologizing for the execution of ...

Pope John XXIII, who, by convening the Ecumenical Council called Vatican II, set in motion ideas and ... world today,” says Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, “we should pray for Pope John.

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

(RNS) — The pope’s appeal was made for the World Day of Peace, coinciding with the launch of the 2025 Jubilee year. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to ...