As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

Mehmet Ali Ağca attempted to kill Pope John Paul II on this day in 1981 in St. Peter’s Square. Trump Suffers Blow Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Order Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar ...

“In my mid-20s, I became more fascinated with Catholicism and Pope John Paul II. He had a profound impact on my life. As I grew in my faith, I really fell in love with the Church and with Christ ...

Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and the ...

In 2004, a photographer captured an image of Pope John Paul II praying in this room for victims of the Madrid bombings. Popes have often met world leaders in the papal library. Heads of state from ...

But it is too early to know precisely what kind of pope he will be. Pope John Paul II, who was Polish and became the first non-Italian pontiff in four-and-half centuries, for a time ignited a ...

But also, to some, he can be a mild, 69-year-old disrupter, the right choice to be the "vicar of Christ" at a time of global instability not seen since the cardinals chose Pope John Paul II in 1978.

It finally feels cool to be a Peruvian American former altar boy who went to Catholic high school and Catholic ... open-air youth day Mass during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Peru in 1985 ...

White, the university’s first American rector, also pointed out that both Pope John Paul II and Pope Leo XIV did their doctoral work at the Angelicum, as it’s commonly called: “For our ...

At age 69, the new pope is the youngest elected since Pope John Paul II was elected at the age of 58 in 1978. The first Polish pope ruled the Catholic Church for more than 26 years until his death ...

German-born Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II, a native of Poland, never publicly relinquished citizenship in their home countries.John Paul was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years ...

When Pope John Paul II visited the United States in 1979 ... Father Villeneuve, now a chaplain at a Catholic high school in San Diego, lived with Leo for several months at the Augustinian friary ...