When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

The radical changes were the culmination of a shift in emphasis away from John Paul II’s moral theology during Pope Francis’ pontificate, seen for example in the sidelining of the institute ...

Our interest here is how the Pope described ... Paolo II, vol. VI/2, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City 1984, pp. 561-564. 6 For this and the subsequent quotations, see John Paul II, Uomo ...

John 1:42 Some Christians deny that the Pope ... and quotes St. Irenaeus’ list (V, 6). Eusebius also cites 1 Peter 5:13 as proof that St. Peter was in Rome, a.k.a. Babylon (II, 15).

On May 18, in St. Peter’s Square, the new Pope Leo XIV called for the Catholic Church ... accountability, and freedom. To be clear, neither John Paul II nor Francis explicitly endorsed socialism. But ...

Just as Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked to defeat the USSR, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV can confront Putin’s Russia. In recent history, the most influential pope in global politics ...

Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, has been shaped by deep interiority and the theology of longing and memory. He personally ...

When Pope John Paul II visited Phoenix in September 1987, he was met by thousands of supporters and tribal representatives from across Arizona. He held Mass at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.

One of Pope Leo XIV’s first major personnel changes could be significant. He has appointed Cardinal Baldassare Reina to replace Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia as head of the Pontifical John Paul II ...

They have some understanding of the papacy’s powers to change public perception: When Pope John Paul II was elected in 1978, it raised the profile of both his hometown, Wadowice, and the entire ...

German-born Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II, a native of Poland, never publicly relinquished citizenship in their home countries. John Paul was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.

doing an a cappella version of “War,” then ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II to protest sexual abuse of children within the Roman Catholic Church. Just as anniversaries are arbitrary ...