While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

The pope avoids any trespassing of theological terminology by preferring affidare to consacrare and also by using the word constellation affidare – consacrare. (cf. Calkins 143-152) John Paul II’s ...

The film is a journey through the 20th century to the sources of Pope John Paul II's character and beliefs, and a journey into the passionate reaction to him. It's a journey that says as much ...

Pope John Paul II had a deep affection and devotion for Our Lady of Guadalupe. During his papacy, he visited Mexico in 1979, where he had a historic encounter with the image of Holy Mary at the ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Abstract from the original German talks given at the German Mariological Consortium on Influece of Mary on Pope John Paul II, provided by Sister M. Danielle ...

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

This disaster occurred in November 1985 and left more than 20,000 dead in Caldas and Tolima. On the following days, St. John Paul II visited the cities of Medellin and Cartagena, where Pope ...

Joining the Pope, Catholic clergy around the country offered prayers for the deceased and condolences for victims’ loved ones ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

Roc Batten is returning to the Nashville area after being introduced as Pope John Paul II Preparatory School’s new football coach, the school announced Tuesday. Batten, a former Vanderbilt ...

Pope John Paul II, who helped President Ronald Reagan topple the Soviet Union, will go down in history as the anti-communist pope. Pope Francis will be remembered as the anti-Israel pope — or ...

Two Bugatti Veyrons, an immaculate Ferrari 250 LM and Pope John Paul II’s Ferrari Enzo will join more than 20 other incredibly valuable supercars in RM Sotheby’s 2015 Monterey Auction.