In July 2025, a photo circulated online that claimed to show Pope John Paul II playing baseball. The picture appears to show the former pope, who died in 2005, in his papal robes while swinging a ...

Rumors began to circulate in June 1979 that Pope John Paul II might travel to Chicago, which was then home to 2.4 million Catholics making it the largest archdiocese in North America.

CBS Chicago Vault: Coverage of Pope John Paul II's visit to Chicago in 1979 Before last week, the highlight of recent Chicago history involving a pope dated back more than 45 years.

Burt Odelson, Dolton’s attorney behind the deal, said that the owner agreed to sell amid threats of Dolton taking the house ...

What happens after Pope Francis' death: A series of traditions ruling his funeral and how to choose the new pope at the conclave.

Relive Pope John Paul II’s 1987 visit to Miami. Storms, a blessing under the rain at Tamiami Park, and memories that made history.

The last pope to die during his tenure was Pope John Paul II in 2005. Here's what happened in the days and weeks that followed.

There have been just seven papal elections in the last 100 years, with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor ...

Pope Francis had a remarkable impact on the Vatican. In Poland, the last Catholic stronghold of Europe, Francis took action, forcing high-ranking officials in the Church to resign, and dismissing ...

Pope Francis’ death will now kick start the Catholic Church’s elaborate and centuries-old procedure for electing a new pontiff.

First issued by St. John Paul II in 1996, it used to allow for a new pope to be elected by a simple majority—rather than two-thirds—after 33 rounds of ballots starting on the second day of the ...

Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' Greg Palkot reflects on covering the two pontiffs.