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

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

Pope St. Paul VI succeeded Pope St. John XXIII in June 1963 ... Montini’s appointment as Archbishop of Milan was his first real pastoral assignment, during which he gained a reputation one ...

The cross certainly looked purple in photos posted to Facebook and Reddit on April 21, the night of the pope’s death. But city officials insist the lights stayed white, making Pope John Paul II ...

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The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

The 69-year-old pontiff dressed in the traditional white cassock, red mozetta, and white skullcap, along with the gold cross necklace ... Leo, like Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II, was ...

Pope John Paul I got rid of the papal tiara. St. John Paul II nixed the sedia gestatoria, the ceremonial throne that the pope was carried around on. Even Pope Pius X, stalwart opponent of ...

In the 1980s, Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ... has appointed five Italian cardinals who identify with his pastoral line. For Leonardo Boff, Francis opened a new world ...

For most of the past century, it has taken between three and eight ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope ... but rather for their pastoral priorities and geographical diversity.

For the first time since the death of John Paul I in 1978 ... a significant gap in pastoral experience that his supporters say is tempered by his work with the faithful as the pope's ...