For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Plano John Paul II player react after winning the TAPPS Division I softball state championship game against Antonian College Prepatory, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Arlington. Plano John Paul II ...

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 ...

Cardinal Newman and St. John Paul II Academy went head-to-head in game 3 to see who will reach the regional finals. It was an entertaining series that would leave two great teams battling for only ...

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 ...

St. John Paul II Elementary School announced recently that Sarah Timmer will serve as the next principal of the Catholic elementary school beginning with the 2025-26 school year. Timmer is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2. John Paul II presented the full symphony of Catholic truths in such a way that those truths could be grasped by the modern mind. At John Paul’s election, Catholic theology — and especially ...

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 ...