COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John Paul the Great.’ ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel ...

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 ...

The pope in those days was John Paul II, who had the looks of a leading man and the gait of a star athlete when he was elected and kept them both for well over a decade. John Paul II had an ...

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

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis’ convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

I had just completed writing The Integral Person in a Fractured World, which centered on Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body. All that was left to do was to do was type in the dedication ...

During a routine Vatican press briefing the day before Pope John Paul II died, the usually composed director of the Holy See Press Office was overcome with emotion. When a German journalist asked ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

This way, he can be available to the press to help the pope.” Benedict XVI, who was elected after John Paul II’s death in 2005, had a different approach, Alazraki said, saying he “didn’t ...

Once-powerful Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was defrocked by Pope Francis​ in 2019 after an investigation into sexual abuse.