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

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. (photo: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0 ...

The decree was signed on Dec. 8, 1998, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, and states, among other things, that “the most celebrated birth in the world ... day in 1995, St. John Paul II ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2 ... “There was this big, quite large youth group who had been camping for the second day [in St. Peter’s Square].

In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip ... world travels, his World Youth Day initiative and publishing the Catechism of the Catholic Church – were all geared toward this ...