An Oklahoma man charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest wrote letters to a ...

Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century, died at his Vatican apartment.

Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless ...

COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John Paul the Great.’ ...

COMMENTARY: Let us heed the great pope’s oft-repeated words, “Be not afraid!” and with courage respond to his witness and ...

The pope in those days was John Paul II, who had the looks of a leading man and the gait of a star athlete when he was elected and kept them both for well over a decade. John Paul II had an ...

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people ... “There was this big, quite large youth group who had been camping for the second day [in St. Peter’s Square].

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 ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

"It's kind of like closure. I guess like going to a funeral for a family member. It's probably the closest we're ever going ...