Twenty-five years ago, the Great Jubilee opened with two historic moments at St Peter’s — the opening of the Holy Door on ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

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 ...

Pope John Paul II was set to visit Iraq in 1999 as part of a tour of the region’s major holy sites, but a diplomatic dispute between Iraq and the Holy See put an end to the plans.

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

2. Pope John Paul II The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities. On July 1, the Holy Father arrived in ...

Livingstone emphasizes in the book Cardinal Pell’s resilience in the face of adversity and how his unwavering faith served as ...

Pope John XXIII, who, by convening the Ecumenical Council called Vatican II, set in motion ideas and ... world today,” says Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich, “we should pray for Pope John.

St. John Paul II addresses a press conference with President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden at the White House ...

Peter’s Basilica, formally launching the Holy Year of Mercy, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) Pope John Paul II walks through the bronze Holy Door of St. Peter’s ...

Two decades earlier, Pope John Paul II had been unable to visit the country because then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected the plan. The city that left a mark on his heart The city of Mosul ...

The door is a passageway that ushers the pilgrim into the interior of a church. Pope John Paul II described these Holy Doors in his declaration of the 2000 Jubilee by saying: "It evokes the ...