John Paul II proved he was a man of the people – in more ways than one. Twenty years ago on Wednesday, the sainted pope ended his earthly pilgrimage. He died at the Vatican on April 2, 2005, at ...

Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' Greg Palkot reflects on covering the two pontiffs.

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 ...

St. Pope John Paul II passed away 20 years ago this April 2. Serving him between 1989 and 2005, first as his bodyguard and then as an adviser to the Holy See, was such a privilege. It was such a ...

Cheney reportedly told the story of a time in 2004 when her father, then-Vice President Dick Cheney, visited Pope John Paul II, and His Holiness took her father’s hand and said "God bless ...

Pope John Paul II (formerly known as Karol Wojtyla) was the first non-Italian leader of the Catholic Church in almost half a century. Born in Poland in 1920 but not ordained a priest until after ...

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. (photo: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA ...

Pope John Paul II took up the role of disruptor with a papacy aimed at reinstating orthodoxy as opposed to Vatican II reforms. Pope Benedict XVI was then elected in 2005 to continue guiding the ...

John Paul II rightly commended Stephen in the context of his family — “his blessed wife, Gisela, and his holy son, Emeric” — remarking that these “splendid lights of Christianity ...

Pope John Paul II prays during Mass at Etchmiadzin, Armenia, on Sept. 27, 2001. (photo: Gabriel Bouys / AFP via Getty Images) Father Raymond J. de Souza Commentaries May 3, 2025 ...

The most recent pope to be canonized was Paul VI in 2018. Four years earlier, John XXIII and John Paul II became saints at a joint ceremony.. For most of the church’s history, decades usually ...