World Mission Sunday occupied a special place in the life of St. John Paul the Great, whose 20th anniversary of death fell ...

COMMENTARY: As we observe a National Eucharistic Revival in the United States and prepare for a national Eucharistic Congress, it’s timely and providential for us to consider John Paul II’s love and ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of East Timorese streamed Tuesday toward a seaside park for Pope Francis’ big Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II celebrated a historic liturgy during the nation’s ...

Three Catholic school educators received the St. John Paul II Award for 25 years of dedicated service during the Diocesan ...

Three long-time educators in the Diocese of Scranton Catholic School System were recognized with the Saint John Paul II Award during the recent Diocesan Teachers’ Institute Mass.

SAN ANTONIO — Pope John Paul II made history when he visited San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 13, 1987, as part of his nine-city tour of the United States. It was the first and only time a pope visited ...

Today, the world learned the identity of the new leader of the Catholic Church — Leo XIV. Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, became the first American pope. Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of ...

Before last week, the highlight of recent Chicago history involving a pope dated back more than 45 years. Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in October 1979, about a year after he was elected. The ...

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, as ...