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

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.

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 ...

Back in 1981, the order’s tolerance of theological dissent, chaotic formation practices, and hemorrhaging members led Pope John Paul II to initiate ... Slovenian artist and spiritual director.

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 ...

The fresco method—in which the artist applies paint pigments to ... Sistine ceiling and “The Last Judgment” in 1994, Pope John Paul II gave a homily that feels in many places like a stout ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.