In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...

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 ...

“We have to get out of an overly functionalist mind-set.” Much the same was said two decades ago of Pope John Paul II as he deteriorated in public view, his body hunched and ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and ...

1. Pope Paul VI With his trip to Colombia in 1968, Blessed Pope Paul VI became the first Pontiff to visit Latin America. Although he was only in Bogota from the 22nd to the 25th of August on the ...

Throughout Francis’ ill health, the Vatican has drawn comparisons with the latter years of Pope John Paul II. The Polish pope continued to lead the church despite a long period of illness ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis appears at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where ...

Pope Francis was so close to death during his weeks-long hospital stint that doctors considered ending his pneumonia treatment so he could just die in peace, the head of his medical team revealed ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis' medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an aggressive course that put his organs at risk ...

VATICAN CITY, March 25 (Reuters) - Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he could ...