VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced the entire world, which stands yet again in need of his blessing, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said. “Bless us, ...

King St. Stephen, Blessed Queen Gisela, and their son, Crown Prince St. Emeric, model the great things that a family can ...

Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless ...

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) – On April 2, 2005, the world mourned the passing of St. John Paul II. At 9:37 p.m., his earthly journey ... intertwining with his passing – became their natural patron saint ...

Premier Giorgia Meloni paid tribute to Pope John Paul II on Wednesday on the 20th anniversary of the saint's death. "20 years ago, on April 2, 2005, Saint John Paul II passed from earth to heaven," ...

(OSV News photo/courtesy conference organizers) POZNAN, Poland (OSV News) — As the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s death approached April 2, top world leaders and thinkers gathered in Poznan, ...

The event originated in Argentina, and St. John Paul II played a fundamental role in its establishment. The story has its beginnings on Nov. 13, 1998, when the pilgrim pope received the then ...

Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, John Paul II’s personal secretary for nearly four decades, told EWTN News during an interview in Krakow that visitors to the saint’s tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica ...

The novena is sponsored by Walking With Moms in Need, an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

Church leaders in India marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II on Wednesday, paying tribute to the ...

But here in the United States, always a country on a hurry-up schedule, St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” promulgated March 25, 1995, has taken a mere 30 years to come into ...

The era of regular papal travel had not yet begun, but that was about to change. In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as pope to the United States when he received a two-page ...