"It's kind of like closure. I guess like going to a funeral for a family member. It's probably the closest we're ever going to get to Rome to see the actual services," said one of the churchgoers.

Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the ...

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

In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as pope to the United States when he received a two-page handwritten letter from Iowa farmer Joe Hays inviting him to visit America’s ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

2. Pope John Paul II The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities. On July 1, the Holy Father arrived in ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...