It's been 43 years since Pope John Paul II visited Manchester, amassing a gigantic crowd at Heaton Park to celebrate Mass.

News of the demise of Pope John Paul II plunged the Holy Land into grief with black flags in the traditional birthplace of Christ expected to usher in an official mourning period. Bells tolled at ...

Pope John Paul II waves to the cheering crowd on June 10, 1987, prior to a Mass in Krakow during his visit to Poland. (photo: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In 1979, John Paul II was already planning his first trip as pope to the United States when he received a two-page handwritten letter from Iowa farmer Joe Hays inviting him to visit America’s ...

Today’s day and age needs more holy families — a need that Pope St. John Paul II keenly observed and made part of his pontificate. He commended the Hungarian Holy Family to the modern world ...

Roman Catholic Cardinals preparing to elect a successor to the late Pope John Paul II held a final round of consultations, two days before beginning the ultra-secret Conclave where the voting ...

The pope in those days was John Paul II, who had the looks of a leading man and the gait of a star athlete when he was elected and kept them both for well over a decade. John Paul II had an ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis’ convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, hundreds flocked to St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha to pay their respects."It's kind of like closure. I guess like going to a funeral for a family member.