Very early on, we, not only me, had the impression that we were dealing with a saint,” said a longtime employee of Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis ... end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in the public eye. The head of the Catholic Church ...

In the 1970s, you were more likely to have a spaceship piloted by an extraterrestrial land in your backyard than the leader of the Catholic ... John Paul II was already planning his first trip as ...

And with a new generation of young Catholic women attempting to navigate a society increasingly marked by both radical feminism on the one hand and a reactionary ‘manosphere’ on the other, it’s a ...

The Catholic Church has not had a pope die in office since 2005, when Pope John Paul II died at the age of 84 after one of the longest pontificates in history. Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected ...

Head of Catholic Church returned ... AFP Vatican City: Pope Francis’s convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting ...