The two-hour Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday — a feast instituted by St. John Paul II — got under way at 10am, shortly after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arrived to take his seat to a warm welcome ...

Pope Francis canonized St. John Paul II in 2014. “It is enough to look at his life” to see that John Paul II had “the smell of the sheep,” Francis said.

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.

Pope Francis noted that John Paul II emphasized mercy throughout his 27-year pontificate, referring to his 1980 encyclical Dives in misericordia, and the canonization of St. Faustina Kowalska and ...

The report holds Pope John Paul II — who died in 2005 — mostly accountable for McCarrick’s elevation to the top of the church hierarchy, despite decades of explicit warnings about sexual abuse.

Pope St. John Paul II an admirable man? His Holiness was so much more than that, he gave the world hope, he gave the people of the world belief, he gave citizens of the world faith.

In a Sunday audience with pilgrims, Pope Francis denounced the “offensive and baseless allegations” made against St. John Paul II by Pietro Orlandi, the brother of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-old ...

Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005, at age 84. The Polish-born pontiff had the third-longest papal reign in history and the second-longest of the modern era.

Local Catholics Cheer As Pope John Paul II Moves Toward Sainthood Five Holy Martyrs has ties to Pope John Paul II, who the Vatican says will be a saint by the end of the year. Parishioners at the ...

Pope John Paul II, who was elected pope on Oct. 16, 1978, survived a would-be assassin's bullet in the early years of his pontificate, pushing onward to become most-traveled pontiff ever ...

September 18, 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pope John Paul II. Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the altar where the saint is laid to rest in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Pope John Paul II will be made a saint, the Vatican announced Friday, according to Reuters and other news outlets, including Italy's La Repubblica. In addition, the wire service writes, "the ...