By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ...

At the end of the Beatification ceremony at Fatima of ... we learn how to entrust ourselves to God with a confident and total, renewed abandonment.” Pope John Paul II spoke briefly of the Message of ...

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

The tribute is in the framework of John Paul II beatification and delegations from both countries will recall the Pope’s mediation in the Argentine-Chilean conflict over the Beagle channel and ...

Nearly two decades after his death, he is being celebrated in the central African country and beyond following Pope Francis ... in 1971 before St. John Paul II announced that he would be ...

Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, or Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was born January 2, 1873 in Alençon, France to pious parents, both of whom were declared venerable by Pope John Paul II.

By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ... in Rome during World War II. -- The heroic virtues of Italian ...