Days before Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, Vatican television cameras captured extraordinary footage of the Polish pope. He was sitting alone facing the altar of his private chapel.

There were plenty of tears shed on April 8, 2005, the day Pope St. John Paul II was laid to rest. Though I was only seven, I vividly remember my mother crying as we watched the funeral. We weren’t ...

Pope's miracles come from France and Costa Rica. April 25, 2014— -- Miracles from France and Costa Rica helped Pope John Paul II blaze the fastest path to sainthood in the history of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis met with the academic community of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in the Vatican on Monday morning, encouraging continued collaboration ...

The sad anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War has passed. Twenty years ago, the United States invaded Iraq and deposed the tyrant Saddam Hussein. These actions led to a decade of violence, ...

On All Saints’ Day 1946 — 75 years ago — St. John Paul II was ordained a priest in the private chapel of the archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Adam Sapieha, who had just been elevated to the sacred ...

SAN ANTONIO — Pope John Paul II made history when he visited San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 13, 1987, as part of his nine-city tour of the United States. It was the first and only time a pope visited ...

Cardinals are pictured as Pope John Paul II arrives to preside over the largest consistory in history Feb. 21, 2001, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The pope elevated 44 church leaders to the ...

John Paul II’s visit in 1987 was the first and only time a pope has come to SC! Pope John Paul II’s visit to South Carolina was part of the Pope’s Apostolic Journey to the United States of America and ...

Today, the world learned the identity of the new leader of the Catholic Church — Leo XIV. Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, became the first American pope. Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of ...