For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

People pray in front of the statue of the late Pope John Paul II, outside the Gemelli hospital ... Subscribers only 'What does Benedict XVI's renunciation tell us about the Catholic Church ...

The actress and talk show host revealed she had been “blessed” by Pope John Paul II when she was having a crisis of faith after getting an abortion at 15. “I had an abortion when I was 15 ...

Can Pope Leo XIV remain a U.S. citizen while leading a foreign government? Here are things to know about the legally thorny ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel ...

Pope John Paul I showed signs of a disruptive papacy ... as the official liturgy of the church. Still, John Paul II's explicit renunciation of modernity and its "moral relativism" made his papacy ...