On this day in 1979, Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła in Poland, visited his home country for the first time as pontiff, ...

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

Pope John Paul II is buried under a slab of white and gray marble a few feet from the tomb of St. Peter, the original pope of the Catholic Church. Vatican officials today opened the Vatican ...

As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

“In my mid-20s, I became more fascinated with Catholicism and Pope John Paul II. He had a profound impact on my life. As I grew in my faith, I really fell in love with the Church and with Christ ...

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

But it is too early to know precisely what kind of pope he will be. Pope John Paul II, who was Polish and became the first non-Italian pontiff in four-and-half centuries, for a time ignited a ...

I recalled the open-air youth day Mass during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Peru in 1985, when I was 13 years old; it was so hot that day that the authorities sprayed water on us with hoses ...

Tours of the main exhibit, which includes the Jubilee temporary display, are available in English and Spanish. The Saint John ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a pope's role in global affairs is Pope John Paul II's association with the fall of communism. John Paul, a bishop from Poland who was head of the Catholic ...

In 2003 Pope John Paul II was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his life's work in opposing Communist oppression and helping to reshape the world. He travelled more than one million ...