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 ...

Pope Francis visits Portugal for World Youth Day (WYD) which takes place over the first week of August. WYD is an international Catholic rally inaugurated by St. John Paul II to invigorate young ...

White smoke billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, indicating Catholic cardinals from around the world ... 2013. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days in 1978 — was elected on the ...

The next pope can decide whether to reverse — or make permanent — certain habits and reforms introduced by Francis.

Pope Francis is the third world leader ... Pope John Paul II (1989) Pope John Paul II became the second Pope to visit Indonesia, from October 9 to 14, 1989. His visit lasted longer than Pope Paul VI's ...

He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was made a cardinal in 2001 under Pope John Paul II. After Pope ... for the huge five-day Catholic gathering, World Youth Day.

Amid the Cold War in 1982 – just years before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 – President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met at the Vatican.

Pope Francis ... after Paul VI in 1970 and John Paul II in 1981 and 1995. Luneta in Manila is the site of the world’s two biggest masses ever – five million on World Youth Day in 1995 and ...

He was the first pope to visit the Asian nation since Pope Saint John Paul II traveled here in 1989 ... Francis was expected to attend World Youth Day to be held in Seoul in 2027.

He once told a World Youth Day audience to go out there and ... he became a priest of the Jesuit order and a bishop under Pope John Paul II. He then became a most improbable pope when Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism ...