The late Pope John Paul II has been accused of covering up child abuse carried out by paedophile priests during his time as archbishop of Krakow, before his move to Rome as pontiff in 1978.

Pope John Paul II knew about allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests — and tried to cover them up — when he was an archbishop in his native Poland, according to an investigative ...

the future pope was the youngest of Karol Wojtyła and Emilia Kaczorowska's three children, his official biography on the Vatican website says. As a child and young adult, John Paul II was heavily ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions ...

The actress and talk show host revealed she had been “blessed” by Pope John Paul II when she was having a crisis of faith after getting an abortion at 15. “I had an abortion when I was 15 ...