Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986 ... including more than 200,000 at an open air Mass at Sydney’s Randwick Racecourse. When he returned as Pope in 1986 he said "To all Australians, people of ...

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 is buried under a slab of white and gray marble a few feet from the tomb of St. Peter, the original pope of the Catholic Church. Vatican officials today opened the Vatican ...

As part of that role, he is also grand chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, the home of the John Paul II Institute. Pope Leo’s May 19 appointment of Cardinal Reina as grand ...

Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and the ...

SAINTS & ART: May 29 marks more than a liturgical footnote: It’s the day a young priest named Montini began the journey to becoming St. Paul VI. Pope Leo XIV uses Van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset ...

On Tuesday, the proposal met its seemingly inevitable demise as online and in-person votes were tallied at Randwick racecourse ... owner and legendary adman John Singleton left the meeting ...

ATC chairman Peter McGauran arriving ahead of the vote on Rosehill racecourse’s future. Edwina Pickles An extraordinary general meeting of the ATC at Randwick racecourse on Tuesday drew a crowd ...

A campaign of members and industry figures who oppose the sale of Rosehill include well-known racing identities Gai Waterhouse, Julia Ritchie, Jason Abrahams and John O'Shea. Among their ...

John Paul Seelman, 60, died on May 22, 2025, on the family farm near Cosgrove, IA. He graduated from Clear Creek High School in 1982. Private family services will be held, and a celebration of ...

Trainer John Sargent is ready to go back to the future with Casual Connection in the PF Civil Handicap at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Casual Connection, a resolute stayer who revels on wet tracks ...