Rome — A documentary hit the airwaves this week in Poland alleging the former pope, Saint John Paul II, protected pedophile priests when he was Archbishop of Krakow in his native country.

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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 ...

A Feb. 18 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes an image of Pope John Paul II being held by the Virgin Mary, who is dressed in blue. “THE VATICAN HAS JUST AUTHORIZED THIS PICTURE ...

Papa Wojtyla was a great leader—a global leader—and not solely for Catholics. For 27 years in every part of the world, cultures and religions had to take into account John Paul II, a great man ...

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

Pope John Paul II, the third-longest serving pope, passed away on this day in history, April 2, 2005, at age 84. The pope had been in rapidly declining health in the last few days of his life ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II . . . their deaths separated by almost exactly twenty years. Both world-renowned figures and similar in personal approach . . . but the two were different ...

I had just completed writing The Integral Person in a Fractured World, which centered on Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body. All that was left to do was to do was type in the dedication ...

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

According to St. John Paul II’s official biographer, George Weigel, living in Nazi-occupied Poland was “the most formative experience of Karol Wojtyla’s life,” shaping the future pope’s ...