In his 27 years as Pope, St. John Paul II canonized more saints than any of his predecessors and influenced civic leaders ...

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

Your specific mission concerns the search for and common witness to the truth,” Pope Leo XIV said Oct. 24 at the Vatican.

COMMENTARY: Like his Polish predecessor, the first American Pope stresses the complementarity of reason and faith.

Pope would talk in multiple languages on wildly varied topics on his plane. April 30, 2011 — -- John Paul II is the only pope ever to have engaged in the modern give-and-take press conference, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you become Pope, you become a prisoner of the Vatican,” worries rising young priest Karol Wojtyla in Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (ABC, Dec. 1 ...

Well, the Pope's health still remains firmly in the balance tonight. On Tuesday, the Vatican saying that Francis is in *** stable condition, but he will overnight be on *** non-invasive ventilator, ...