In his seven visits to America during his papacy, St. John Paul II often shared his mastery of the nation’s foundational ...

Father Vijay Kiran proudly sports two lapel pins on his clerical suit jacket: one for St. John Paul II and one for St. Teresa of Kolkata.

I had just completed writing The Integral Person in a Fractured World, which centered on Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body. All that was left to do was to do was type in the dedication: “This ...

April 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1513, Ponce De Leon of Spain landed at what is now St. Augustine, Fla., to search for the Fountain of Youth. In 1792, Congress passed legislation ...

In this exclusive interview on the occasion of her 100th birthday, the famous Ravensbrück survivor discusses her friendship with the Polish saint, World War II, the excesses of science and the need ...

In the 1970s, you were more likely to have a spaceship piloted by an extraterrestrial land in your backyard than the leader of the Catholic Church. The era of regular papal travel had not yet begun, ...

A news conference on Pope Francis' condition takes place at Rome's Gemelli hospital March 22. Participating are, from left: Dr. Luigi Carbone, the pope's personal physician; Matteo Bruni, director of ...

A video from 2011 of a waxwork of Pope John Paul II being exhibited at a Mexican school is being shared online alongside a false claim that the figure is the late pontiff’s actual remains being ...

Labor has long been a central concern of Catholic social teaching. Starting with Rerum Novarum, the seminal encyclical of Catholic social teaching issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, through the current ...

The soggy crowds at the pope’s Mass at Tamiami Park in 1987. Carol Guzy Miami Herald File Lightning shook the skies, rain pelted the earth. But Pope John Paul II, preaching under an umbrella, wanted ...

Regarding Erika Bachiochi’s “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14): When one thinks of a feminist, such names as Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem come to mind ...