In the introduction, author Yvonnick Denoël recalls how shortly after the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978 an electronic ...

In his annual Christmas message, Pope Francis urged the world to "silence the sound of arms" and find reconciliation, "even (with) our enemies." Pope Francis delivered his annual Christmas message ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday opens the 2025 Holy Year, kicking off a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome and test the ...

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Pope Francis attended a prayer service in Mosul's Old City during the visit A plot to assassinate Pope Francis during a trip to Iraq was stopped following a tip-off from British intelligence ...

The memoir is due to be published in January in more than 80 countries. In May 1981, Pope John Paul II narrowly survived assassination after being shot and wounded in St. Peter's Square in the ...

Pope Francis’ upcoming autobiography, “Hope,” details two attempts on his life in 2021 during a historic trip to Iraq. According to Politico’s translation of excerpts from “Hope,” which were published ...

The door is a passageway that ushers the pilgrim into the interior of a church. Pope John Paul II described these Holy Doors in his declaration of the 2000 Jubilee by saying: "It evokes 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.

ROME — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had ...

Excerpts from Pope Francis’s upcoming memoir reveal UK surveillance warned of double suicide bomb attack during pontiff’s 2021 visit to Iraq In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography ...

The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...