While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

Synopsis This film depicts the true story of Pope John Paul II (Albert Finney). Long before becoming the first Polish pope, the young Karol Jozef Wojtyla (Michael Crompton) dabbles in acting ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

Pope John Paul II rides in a three-wheeled bicycle rickshaw at the Vatican Mission in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 19, 1986. (AP Photo/Arturo Mari, File) By retracing John Paul’s steps, Francis is ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Pope John Paul II visiting Ireland, the death of George ...

(Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) What did President Ronald Reagan have in common with Pope John Paul II ...

But he won’t be the first pope to set foot on the South Pacific island nation — Pope John Paul II visited the island twice, in 1984 and 1995. Papua New Guinea (PNG), situated on the eastern ...

This is the first visit to the world's most populous Muslim country by a pope since John Paul II in 1989. The 87-year-old pontiff met with representatives of Indonesia's six officially recognized ...

Father Ryan jumped out to a big lead then held off Pope John Paul II late to claim a 27-21 win in a Week 2 TSSAA football ...

A reverent drama about the life of Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. Cary Elwes portrays Wojtyla as a younger man; Jon Voight plays him in his later years. The story begins with the ...

The pope avoids any trespassing of theological terminology by preferring affidare to consacrare and also by using the word constellation affidare – consacrare. (cf. Calkins 143-152) John Paul II’s ...