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

Anyway, the story I am about to recount happened during the visit to Sri Lanka of the much-loved Pope John Paul the Second. It is said that when the Pope visited Sri Lanka, he was provided with an ...

Mehmet Ali Ağca attempted to kill Pope John Paul II on this day in 1981 in St. Peter’s Square. Trump Suffers Blow Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Order Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar ...

I recalled the open-air youth day Mass during Pope John Paul II’s visit to Peru in 1985, when I was 13 years old; it was so hot that day that the authorities sprayed water on us with hoses ...

What to Know About the First American Pontiff As heir, Charles previously represented his mother, Queen Elizabeth, at the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. (That funeral even forced the royal to ...

He noted Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis rarely traveled outside of their home countries when they were cardinals and that Leo's expertise on international relations will be beneficial during ...

Perhaps the most famous example of a pope's role in global affairs is Pope John Paul II's association with the fall of communism. John Paul, a bishop from Poland who was head of the Catholic ...

Robert Prevost before he became Pope Leo XIV - with Pope John Paul II. Picture: Courtesy of the ... to tourists at the city’s Cloud Gate Sculpture, affectionately dubbed The Bean, who said ...

To be part of a joyfully charged crowd of 90,000 people and then see the Pope was simply awesome. Not only did our people get to see the pope, but a good majority of them had near front row seats.

He then recited together with those present Pope John Paul II’s prayer to the Mother of Good Counsel, and led those present in reciting the Hail Mary and the Salve Regina. Afterward, he spoke to ...

Harris highlighted Pierre Toussaint, a philanthropist born in Haiti as a slave who became a New York City entrepreneur and was declared “Venerable” by Pope John Paul II in 1997. “The ...