‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ marks its 175th anniversary

Pope John Paul II 20 years later: ‘He lives in hearts’

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. / Credit: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Apr 2, 2... [...]

Pope St. John Paul II's prophecy of peace, 20 years later

Twenty years after the death of Pope John Paul II on 5 April 2005, our Editorial Director explores how the Church celebrates the saint and recalls his unheeded words against war. Read all

Attending the Person: Twenty Years after John Paul II

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II. Regardless of your beliefs—religious or not, Catholic or non-Catholic—his passing is worth commemorating. He was a man in full and a figure of global-historical significance. It is for good reason he has come to be popularly known as Saint John Paul the Great. His personal story is compelling. His experienced significant loss in his family, attended an underground seminary dur…

20 Years Later, John Paul II’s Presence Still Resonates

L'Osservatore Romano St. John Paul II is seen at the general audience in St. Peter's Square, Oct. 21, 1981. COMMENTARY: Though he died 20 years ago, John Paul remains a pope of the future.

Pope St. John Paul II: Witness to the world - The Record Newspaper

Then-Pope John Paul II makes his first appearance as pope following his election Oct. 16, 1978. April 2 marks the 20th anniversary of now St. John Paul II’s death. (OSV News photo/Arturo Mari, L’Osservatore Romano) By Russell Shaw, OSV News Sometimes it seemed as if Pope St. John Paul II could do just about anything — do it well, in fact — if he simply set his mind to doing it. This impression of uncommon giftedness would by itself have been eno…

With a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican commemorated on April 2 the two decades of the death of John Paul II, in a ceremony presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin in the absence of Pope Francis, still convalescent....