956. The intercession of the saints. “Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness.... They do not cease to intercede with the ...

(Photo by Johann Jaritz / CC BY-SA 3.0 AT) On April 6, visitors at St. Peter’s witnessed ... 1964, Pope Paul VI, in a gesture of goodwill toward the Greek Orthodox Church, returned Saint Andrew ...

On May 13, 1981, at 5:17 PM, three gunshots resonated out on St. Peter's Square in Rome ... and right arm, Pope John Paul II took months to recover from the attack. A year and a half later ...