“Be not afraid.” When Pope John Paul II uttered those words in 1979, they resonated far beyond his native Warsaw, Poland. His proclamation was not simply spiritual guidance, but a principled ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. He was the first Latin American pontiff, the first non-European pope in more than ...

Pope Francis strayed from the more conservative path forged by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. But in death, Francis will be following in many of John Paul’s footsteps.

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

while 23 were created by Pope Benedict XVI and five by Pope John Paul II. Pope Francis created cardinals from 72 different countries, and 24 of those nations have never had a cardinal before.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was the second pontiff to set foot in Quebec and his visit could not have been more different from that of Pope John Paul II. John Paul’s 1984 ...

He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2001 by Pope John Paul II, whom he would later canonize. Francis' election marked many other firsts. A native of Argentina, he was the first pope to ...

Niall Paterson is joined by Italian-born Sky News presenter Barbara Serra, who covered the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005 as well as Pope Francis's election in 2013, and is herself a Catholic.

The open-air funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 drew hundreds of thousands of mourners.Credit...Dylan Martinez/Reuters The College of Cardinals decides on the day and hour that the pope’s body ...

The life of Karol Josef Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, represented hope and strength to many people around the world. Millions have joined together in mourning his passing. And though his ...

Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors and, in the long history of the church, the selection of a new pope has often evidenced a desire to ...