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

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

John 21 is also used at papal funerals. It was used for both Pope Francis and Pope St. John Paul II. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who preached last week, barely took notice of the Gospel passage ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his papacy and personal mission. Pope John Paul II laughs during a gat ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II . . . their deaths separated by almost exactly twenty years. Both world-renowned figures and similar in personal approach . . . but the two were different ...

The era of regular papal travel had not yet begun, but that was about to change. In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as pope to the United States when he received a two-page ...

It has now been 20 years since the death of Pope John Paul II. And with the passage of time, an entirely new generation of Catholics has arisen who have no real memory of why those of us who are ...

Twenty years after the death of John Paul II on April 2, 2005, it’s too early to declare St. John Paul II a doctor of the Church. It’s not too soon, however, to imagine why such an honor might ...

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 ...

Regarding Erika Bachiochi’s “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14): When one thinks of a feminist, such names as Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem ...

According to St. John Paul II’s official biographer, George Weigel, living in Nazi-occupied Poland was “the most formative experience of Karol Wojtyla’s life,” shaping the future pope’s ...

Beginning on March 5, the first day of Lent, and running through Easter Sunday, April 20, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., will host an exhibit called “‘Lord ...