VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced the entire world ... at the altar where his body rests,” Cardinal Parolin prayed the saint would continue to ...

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 ...

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," ...

His motorcade made a detour en route to the Vatican, stopping at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ... People gather near the statue of late Pope John Paul II, on the day Pope Francis is expected ...

(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, ...

By Nirmala Carvalho India today marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Saint John Paul II, the Polish pope who visited the country twice – in 1986 and 1999 – during his long and historic ...

Instead of stained glass, colored images cover the windows ... Restrictions on the Mass began to loosen in the 1980s, when Pope John Paul II allowed bishops to permit the traditional rite within their ...

Thomas More University’s Institute for Religious Liberty will present a special program on Monday in celebration of Pope Saint John Paul II on the 20th anniversary of his death. Dr. Paul Kengor ...

Picture: Getty Images Archbishop Fisher was speaking ... died in September 1997 and was declared a saint in 2016, while the late Pope John Paul II died in April 2005 and was canonised in 2014.

This cemetery is named for Saint Callistus, a slave who eventually became the 16th pope (217-222). The inscription found at Saint Callistus comes from the first letter St. Paul wrote to the church ...

Greeting Polish pilgrims at the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis recalled the 40th anniversary tomorrow of the assassination attempt on Pope Saint John Paul II. “He was certain that he owed ...