Now, Leo XIV has become the first U.S.-born pope — in 2,000 years. In his homily at his papal inauguration in 1978, John Paul II clearly emphasized, “Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for ...

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 ...

Mancinelli said in Italian he dressed Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict and Pope Francis. Since 1962, Mancinelli has crafted cassocks of cardinals, bishops, priests and deacons. His stoles ...

A year out of college, Prevost took his first vows in September 1978, a month before Karol Wojtyła, a Pole, was elected Pope John Paul II. He was followed by Joseph Ratzinger, a German ...

During a visit to Emanuela Orlandi’s family home, the late Pope John Paul II told her relatives he believed ... Now dead Gabriele Amorth – formerly chief exorcist for the Vatican – told ...

Pope Leo XIV is under massive pressure to launch an inquiry into one of the Vatican‘s most disturbing secrets – exposed by ...

President Norman C. Francis of Xavier University in New Orleans shakes hands with Pope John Paul II after appearing before the United Nations committee against apartheid in a special session to ...

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 ...

In the current digital age, Pope Leo XIV said ... which was founded by John Paul II in 1993 to study and make known the church’s social doctrine. The foundation is holding its annual ...

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 ...

And yet, neither can be sacrificed for the sake of the other. No less than Pope John Paul II has reaffirmed much of Humanae Vitae in his Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and his Theology of the Body ...

Pope John Paul II wanted it to be clear that the church’s precept is not some arbitrary dictate by a tyrannical dictator in Rome. He makes it clear in his 1998 apostolic letter Dies Domini (On ...