John and Yvette Hoffman, who were shot in Minnesota on Saturday, said they were "both incredibly lucky to be alive." ...

The Vatican has beatified a Congolese government worker who was killed for resisting corruption, giving young people in a ...

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Egypt, was attacked by Israeli jet ...

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Pope Leo appeared to encourage a well-wisher to throw the gift over after spotting them offering it to him.

But no pope had visited Chicago while in office before. Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, Philadelphia ...

The soggy crowds at the pope’s Mass at Tamiami Park in 1987. Carol Guzy Miami Herald File Lightning shook the skies, rain pelted the earth. But Pope John Paul II ... At 1:10 p.m., the papal ...

This Sunday they will have a Gospel text that should inspire their preaching as they ready themselves to elect a new pope. The assigned reading for this Sunday is John 21:1-19. Jesus asks Peter ...

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 ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II ... The passing of a pope is just the beginning of a lengthy process when the Vatican turns over the keys to the church of 1.3 billion global followers ...

John Paul was hospitalized after the assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca in St. Peter's Square. The pope was wounded by gunshots in his abdomen and hand. John Paul underwent surgery for a ...