Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

The last three pontiffs each chose very different paths between Rome and home.

In 2003 Pope John Paul II was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ... and many non-Catholics mourned his death. The public viewing of his body in St Peter's Basilica drew over four million people ...

John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days — was elected on the third ballot in 1978. His successor, St. John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013. There are no ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

Pope Francis’s inauguration in 2013 drew 31 heads of state and 132 official delegations from national governments or international organisations. And John Paul II’s funeral in 2005 assembled ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

2. Pope John Paul II The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities. On July 1, the Holy Father arrived in ...

No. 1 Pennsbury (18-1) swept No. 4 Unionville 3-0 on Tuesday in a District One 3A volleyball semifinal double header at Pope ...

In the end he spent the majority of the 80s living in the city, a time and place he vividly recalls in his new book, “The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s” (Farrar, Straus ...