Such a demanding job can be good for the brain and body. But Pope Leo XIV may also have to contend with challenges that are ...

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 ...

During the event known as the " Cadaver Synod ," Formosus was found guilty of being a bishop in two places at once and had ...

In 1975, just three years after being paralyzed during an assassination attempt, the governor was in Italy on business when he requested an audience with Pope John Paul II, but ended up coming short.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin Mary on Monday gathered at the sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal to pray for ...

As the world mourns Pope Francis, the Swiss Guard, with their historic and colorful uniforms, stand vigil, continuing a ...

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

There were many interesting and somewhat new aspects in the election of Pope Francis after the death of John Paul ... of an assassination attempt. On November 27, 1970, Pope Paul VI narrowly ...

(Bob Fila/Chicago Tribune) Pope John Paul II’s nearly 3-hour Mass in Grant Park supposedly attracted 500,000 to 1.5 million people. One Tribune reporter wondered if the park could host a crowd ...

The following year, while recovering from an assassination attempt, Pope John Paul II traveled to the Shrine of Merciful Love in Collevalenza, Italy, where he revealed that he felt spreading the ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing Pope Francis' residence ...

Amid the Cold War in 1982 – just years before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 – President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met at the Vatican.