Steeped in the Christian tradition, the pontiff taught that men and women are different to their core, revealing something ...

Pope St. John Paul II could well be called the "apostle of life." He spent his entire pontificate boldly proclaiming the ...

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.

Pope Francis returns to Vatican after hospitalization for double pneumonia, making a surprise stop at his favorite basilica.

Pope Francis blesses crowd after surviving pneumonia, longest hospitalization of papacy, expected to return home for rest.

she asked. “If you remember our old pope (John Paul II), he couldn’t speak up, but he showed up.” Associated Press writers Paolo Santalucia and Silvia Stellacci contributed to this report.

Marking the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Fr Rif’at Bader, a Jordanian priest of ...

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 ...

The military archdiocese was created by Pope John Paul II in 1985 after serving since World War I as a sort of satellite entity answerable to bishops from the Archdiocese of New York. A spokesman ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Roman Catholic world has been gripped by uncertainty as Pope Francis ... When John Paul II died in 2005, his ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

Christ lives in him when he is “crucified with Christ.” John Paul II notes that “Christ also becomes in a particular way united to the man, Paul, through the cross” (SD, 20). Paul reveals ...