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

Every pope uses his global platform to emphasize certain issues. John Paul II played a significant role ... from Connecticut but currently teaching art in Rome. That alone, she said, can ...

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 ...

Today’s newsletter will guide you through The Times’s coverage of the new pope and his views. Robert Prevost, newly ordained, greets Pope John Paul II in ... an Argentine art student in ...

John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days in 1978 — was elected on the fourth ballot. His successor, John Paul II, needed eight ... that reality imitates art quite so promptly.

So it was for Karol Wojtyła, who came out from behind the Iron Curtain and into the sports stadiums of the world as Pope John Paul II. And so it ... music, art, theatre, and dance.

The bronze stranger on the bench is an angel, a life-size sculpture embodying ... among them to be the 267th pope. While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were ...

Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511, oil on panel ... Cadaver Synod, by French artist Jean Paul Laurens, was vastly different from what many papal art pieces looked like. This painting depicts ...

Since Pope Pius XII excommunicated the communists, the Left could only ever expect to be anathema. Didn’t Pope John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger persecute ... the Bolivian socialist president ...

after Pope Julius, who died in 1513, shifted his attention to the ongoing construction of St. Peter’s. Francis’ two predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, opted for considerably plainer ...

All with a personal, humble and humorous touch. And at the same time, in my mind, there were memories of the passing of Pope John Paul II. I was there in Vatican City on a chilly night in April ...

cardinals filing in like pupils at a school assembly—it was as if nothing had been altered since I watched the funeral for Pope John Paul II from a high place on the other side of the basilica ...