Belén Perales, a 60-year-old Spanish woman, lived for 35 years as an atheist, turning away from the Catholic faith in her teens after a series of traumatic experiences. However, her life changed ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The man who tried to kill former Pope John Paul II 33 years ago showed up at the Vatican on Saturday to put white roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis.

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded John Paul II in 1981 laid white flowers Saturday on the saint's tomb in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican officials said. The surprise visit by ...

Faithful file past casket in Chapel of St. Sebastian in St. Peter’s Basilica. Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz prays at the new tomb of late Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY — Clutching rosaries, medals and flowers, thousands of people filed past the simple white marble tomb of Pope John Paul II today, as the Vatican reopened the grottoes beneath St. Peter's ...

FILE - In this Dec. 27, 1983 file photo provided by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II, left, meets Mehmet Ali Agca, in Agca's prison cell in Rome. The Vatican says the Turk who ...

People pray at the tomb of St. John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 2, 2025, the 20th anniversary of his death. Born Karol Wojtyla, he was the first pope from Poland and the first ...

Benedict XVI will be interred in the Vatican crypt in the same spot where Pope John Paul II was buried before his beatification. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed the site of Benedict’s tomb to ...

Her life changed dramatically on a visit to the tomb of St. John Paul II in the Vatican, where, according to her, she had a profound revelation that brought her back home. Belén Perales is now host of ...

The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II 33 years ago turned up at the Vatican today to put roses on his tomb and said he wanted to meet Pope Francis. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk, left John Paul ...