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

That the greatest defenders of American values are the incumbent British monarch and the Vicar of Christ is a great irony.

In the history of the Archdiocese of Boston, only one cardinal archbishop has voted in more than one papal conclave: Cardinal ...

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

Pope John Paul II (formerly known as Karol Wojtyla) was the first non-Italian leader of the Catholic Church in almost half a century. Born in Poland in ... to continue to St. Peter’s Church ...

The Catholic Church is currently ... unknown to sit upon the Chair of St. Peter: Karol Wojtyła, the archbishop of Krakow, Poland, who took the name John Paul II. A non-Italian had not been ...

Church bells tolled across Poland on Monday as the nation mourned ... after experiencing breathing difficulties. Bells tolled at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, Notre-Dame Cathedral in ...

John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI ... overlooks St. Peter’s Square ...

A decade later, when the Catholic leadership backed a near-total abortion ban in Poland ... in a 2019 sermon at St. Mary’s Basilica, Krakow’s most famous church. Some have accused the church ...

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP ... Jedraszewski of Krakow also derided the activists as a “rainbow plague” in a 2019 sermon at St. Mary’s Basilica, Krakow’s most famous church.