And there, in the first row of concelebrants, was John Paul II’s great vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini: 93 and confined to a wheelchair, but determined to celebrate the ...

It has now been 20 years since the death of Pope John Paul II. And with the passage of time ... older still refer to him as “John Paul the Great.” Indeed, for many young Catholics of a ...

In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as ... Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless ...

There were plenty of tears shed on April 8, 2005, the day Pope St. John Paul II was laid to rest ... I really took great comfort in Wojtyla. I needed to figure out what was true and false ...

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COMMENTARY: Let us heed the great pope’s oft-repeated words ... Guido Greganti, “Pope John Paul II,” 1983, Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi, Rome (photo: Renata Semakova ...

COMMENTARY: John Paul was the Church’s teacher of jubilees, drawing upon his experience in Poland. Pope John Paul II and the head ... the legacy of two great millennial Churchmen has prepared ...

Poles are already calling him John Paul the Great. Across the heavily Roman Catholic country, the faithful are voicing joy and pride as Sunday's beatification of Polish-born Pope John Paul II ...

From the perspective of nearly half a century — more than half of which was taken up by the pontificate of St. John Paul II — there’s no question Wojtyła put an indelible mark on the papacy ...

At Yankee Stadium, the great Yankees are commemorated with plaques in Monument Park, a sort of Yankees-only Hall of Fame. Yogi and Reggie are there, as are Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI ...

John Paul II rightly praised Stephen, Gisela and Emeric and commended them to the modern world. Their lives bore great fruit and produced “such virtue in the subsequent generations as to give ...