John Paul II led more than a billion Catholics for 27 years and revolutionized how the church's followers relate to the pope. He traveled to more than 125 countries, logging 680,000 miles of travel.

Shaped entirely by the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI dedicated his pontificate to beginning the implementation of the ...

John Paul II is the only pope ever to have engaged in the modern give-and-take press conference, but there was only one place he would do it -- at 35,000 feet, flying between countries.

The return of Pope Leo XIV to Castel Gandolfo was widely welcomed, even if only for a few weeks. The previous custom was that ...

Thoughtful, Independent, ProgressiveAnother prophetic pope A new pope arrives in the United States. Expectations are high for this different type of papacy that brings fresh air from a land that has ...

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 ...

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Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' Greg Palkot reflects on covering the two pontiffs.

Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, Philadelphia, and Des Moines before arriving in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 4.

John Paul II gave voice to the oppressed and reminded us why moral clarity matters. Sadly, that clarity was sometimes hard to find in the papacy of Pope Francis. Francis died Monday, aged 88.

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Context The photograph taken in 1996 shows Gene Greytak, a man who impersonated Pope John Paul II. In July 2025, a photo circulated online that claimed to show Pope John Paul II playing baseball.