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

On this day 43 years ago, 300,000 people gathered to welcome the Pope to Coventry. On May 30, 1982, Pope John Paul II was ...

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St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. When he was elected to the papacy in 1978, he became the first non-Italian to be elected as the Holy ...

“In my mid-20s, I became more fascinated with Catholicism and Pope John Paul II. He had a profound impact on my life. As I grew in my faith, I really fell in love with the Church and with Christ ...

“For the first bit, [John] said to me, ‘I don’t know where to go from here,” recalled George Martin in the book All You Need Is Ears. “So, Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working ...

I know. I used to talk to John. He was no more deep than I am. We were equally flippant. "If you look at John's upbringing and my upbringing, mine made me into a very different kind of person," he ...

NOTE: This story originally aired on WBAY-TV2 in 1993 and was done by reporter Jerry Burke. As the story was done before digital news media, the script for this story may be incomplete. Please ...

When this year’s crop of seniors first arrived to play for Northwest Washington baseball power St. John’s ... an 8-2 win over Paul VI in the second game of the Washington Catholic Athletic ...

"If you ever got a speck of praise from John, a crumb of it, you were quite grateful." Paul McCartney on John Lennon When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.