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 ...

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in October 1979, about a year after he was elected. The Archdiocese of Chicago called John Paul II's visit "an extraordinary event which saw an outpouring of ...

SLIDELL, La. (WGNO) — No. 3 Pope John Paul II defeated No. 6 Episcopal, 6-1, in game two of their Division III Select series Friday night. With the win, Pope John Paul II advances to the semi ...

John 21 is also used at papal funerals. It was used for both Pope Francis and Pope St. John Paul II. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who preached last week, barely took notice of the Gospel passage ...

Cardinal Newman and St. John Paul II Academy went head-to-head in game 3 to see who will reach the regional finals. It was an entertaining series that would leave two great teams battling for only ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his papacy and personal mission. Pope John Paul II laughs during a gat ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II . . . their deaths separated by almost exactly twenty years. Both world-renowned figures and similar in personal approach . . . but the two were different ...

His international journeys could never equal those of Pope John Paul II, one of the most ... to a crowd of more than 400,000 people at Randwick Racecourse. Pope Francis in a traditional hat ...

In 1986, Pope Paul II made the first of two visits. He also held mass at Randwick, though this time ... in 1999, Pope John Paul II was photographed kissing a Koran; Pope Benedict XVI prayed ...

Today’s day and age needs more holy families — a need that Pope St. John Paul II keenly observed and made part of his pontificate. He commended the Hungarian Holy Family to the modern world ...

The era of regular papal travel had not yet begun, but that was about to change. In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as pope to the United States when he received a two-page ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel ...