Reagan instructed the CIA to run its own top-secret investigation into the pope’s shooting. He found that a Soviet intelligence agency (the GRU) had ordered the hit. If John Paul knew Moscow was ...

The Turkish man who tried to kill Pope John ... arrested. John Paul recovered and later met Ağca in prison, where the pontiff forgave his would-be killer. At the time of the shooting, Ağca ...

Thirty five years ago, Pope John Paul II was ... after five hours of surgery. John Paul II credited Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life following the shooting, which took place on the Feast ...

ROME – An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John ... Union for shooting John Paul.

FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Benedict XVI today recalled the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II as he traveled to this Catholic shrine and prayed before a statue holding the bullet that ...

America had only hosted two popes — Paul ... John Paul was moved to the upper basilica in 2011. This will be only the second papal funeral in 44 years — and the first time a sitting pope ...

On this day in 1979, Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła in Poland, visited his home country for the first time as pontiff, ...

Pope Francis beatified John Paul I, who reigned as pope for only 33 ... He participated in all of the sessions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) as the bishop of Vittorio Veneto and ...

Episcopal scored on four of its first five possessions in the second half to overpower Pope John Paul II 24-7 in a Division III select regional playoff game Friday night at Episcopal. The two ...