In 1979, John Paul II was ... After all, as Pope Paul VI said in 1975, "the Church exists to evangelize." He told pilgrims to World Youth Day in Denver that "Jesus came to provide the ultimate ...

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 ...

to search for the Fountain of Youth ... mob boss John Gotti in five killings, racketeering and other charges. Gotti died in prison in 2002. In 2005, Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2 ... “There was this big, quite large youth group who had been camping for the second day [in St. Peter’s Square].

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 ...

This was the state of the Catholic Church and the baggage that accompanied it for over a quarter a century in the long shadow cast by Pope John Paul II ... for the World Youth Days.