VATICAN CITY — The sealing of the coffin officially ended three days of public viewing of Pope Francis in Rome. The Vatican says about 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica, and hundreds ...

Felicia Reilly was a strong woman who could carry her own, and in death she arranged to be carried by the people whose careers she always wanted to build up: Fellow women St. Paul officers were her ...

There were plenty of tears shed on April 8, 2005, the day Pope St. John Paul II was laid to rest. Though I was only seven, I vividly remember my mother crying as we watched the funeral. We weren’t ...

Editor’s Note: John Paul II biographer George Weigel delivered the following remarks May 18 in Rome at the II International Bioethics Conference, International Chair of Bioethics Jérôme Lejeune. It is ...

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will be attending Pope Francis’ funeral on April 26. Not so long ago, that was a shocking idea. U.S. President George W. Bush (L), U.S. first lady Laura ...

St. John Paul II has been called the “mercy pope” for good reason. As pope, he beatified and then canonized St. Faustina Kowalska, who received the message of divine mercy that later spread throughout ...

In April 8, 2005, something happened in Rome that hadn’t happened for over 1,400 years: the congregation at a papal funeral Mass spontaneously proclaimed the deceased Pontiff a saint. The honoree was ...

Twenty-five years have gone by since St. John Paul II transformed the Tor Vergata esplanade in the south of Rome into the beating heart of the young Church for the World Youth Day celebration in 2000.

Apr. 8—MITCHELL — A change in leadership is coming to one of Mitchell's elementary schools next school year. St. John Paul II Elementary School announced recently that Sarah Timmer will serve as the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Students at the new St. John Paul II Academy began their first day of school Monday with a special blessing from Bishop Michael Mulvey. The campus was formed earlier this year ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II . . . their deaths separated by almost exactly twenty years. Both world-renowned figures and similar in personal approach . . . but the two were different, as ...