(CNN) --Before he became the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II was Karol Jozef Wojtyla. Friends in Wadowice, a town of 8,000 Catholics and 2,000 Jews 35 miles southwest of ...

Pope Francis offers the preface to a new book, entitled "The Goal is Happiness," published by Italian Edizioni Ares. The ...

Long before becoming the first Polish pope, the young Karol Jozef Wojtyla (Michael Crompton) dabbles in acting, but ultimately opts to become a Roman Catholic priest. A compassionate man ...

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The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa has been visited by at least three U.S. presidents over the decades. More on ...

at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University—incidentally putting young Karol Wojtyla, the future pope, out on the street. Echoing Solzhenitsyn, Wajda extols remembrance: “The best remedy for ...

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In attempting an answer, the pope starts with a line from the Second Vatican Council, which he probably drafted as Cardinal Wojtyla: "Man cannot fully find himself except through the sincere gift ...

Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? Or too Pope-dependent, to put it another way. It wasn’t always so. These ...

Numbers will be smaller than usual due to the coronavirus restrictions, but Karol Wojtyla, the first non-Italian to become pope in more than 450 years, is still revered in his homeland.

though his first two visits were before he was named pope and instead was Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Krakow. The future pope's first visit was in 1969, and he returned in 1976 with the ...