Pope John Paul II laughs during a gathering in St. Peter’s Square with tens of thousands of young people from Rome and the Lazio region, ahead of the 18th World Youth Day celebrations on Palm ...

He told pilgrims to World Youth Day in Denver that "Jesus came to ... international speaker and pro-life activist. He met Pope St. John Paul II five times. His most recent book is "100 Ways ...

following Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. The groundwork for the visit was laid by his predecessor, who announced Seoul as the host city for the next World Youth Day at the end of the 2023 ...

Now 20 years since Pope ... The youth did not abandon him to the end.” Umberto Civitarese, a longtime employee of Vatican Radio (now Vatican News) who covered up close John Paul II’s papacy ...

On Sunday, May 18, Pope Leo XIV will celebrate ... the first being named a recent saint. St. John Paul II’s birthday is May 18; he was born on this day in 1920 in Wadowice, Poland.

Philipps recalled that she later went on a trip to Europe with friends where they stopped at the Vatican on a day Pope John Paul II happened to be giving an address. She said “a confluence of ...

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 ...

To be part of a joyfully charged crowd of 90,000 people and then see the Pope was simply awesome ... It was so great,” said one youth from a Diocese of Green Bay youth group.

to search for the Fountain of Youth. In 1792, Congress passed legislation ... In 1992, a New York jury convicted mob boss John Gotti in five killings, racketeering and other charges.