POPE JOHN PAUL II (1920 — 2005)Your Thoughts & Prayers — E-mails from FOX Fans continue to pour in concerning Pope John Paul II.

As pope, John Paul II beatified more people than the total of all other popes since the 15th century reign of Pope Sixtus VI, leading some critics to speculate that he was rapidly pushed to sainthood.

Vallini, who is the pope's vicar to the Rome diocese, is the prelate who greeted Francis and who, along with city hall, decided a part of St. John in Lateran Square should be named after John Paul II.

Pope John Paul II 13:53. Italian and Vatican authorities have started to plan for an event expected to draws hundreds of thousands of faithful from around the world.

Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: "Let me go to the house of the Father." Six hours later, the comatose pontiff died, the Vatican says.

Pope John Paul II died in April 2005 at the age of 84. His official cause of death was septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease, arthritis and other ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood Friday, a little more than eight years after his death and faster than any other person in the modern era.

Pope Francis proclaimed as saints Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII, considered two of the great popes of the 20th century, in an elaborate ceremony concelebrated by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ...

The Roman Catholic Church will declare Pope John Paul II a saint, the Vatican announced Friday, July 5. The Polish-born pope, pictured in 1978, was fast-tracked to beatification after his death in ...

Pope John Paul II gives the noon blessing in Perugia, Italy, October 26, 1986. Photo: Gianni Foggia/ASSOCIATED PRESS. Students of the Cold War’s dark arts know that Communist intelligence ...

April 3, 2005 — -- Pope John Paul II leaves the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church two very different institutions from what they were when he was elected pope in 1978.