COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul ...

Pope Francis has released his autobiography "Hope". The book shares anecdotes from his life alongside his thoughts on the ...

The book adds details to what is known about the Pope’s childhood but falls short when it comes to his later years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Students at Pope John Paul II in Thunder Bay, Ont., are back in class after a morning fire prompted an evacuation. "The Thunder Bay Fire Service quickly responded, assessed the situation ...

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood ... before he became Pope Benedict XVI, and both he and his predecessor, John Paul II, coauthored books with ...

On receiving participants in the Seventh International Congress of the Pastoral Care for Circus and Fair Workers this morning, Pope John Paul II said that their work, "which is difficult and very ...

Pope Francis accepted Tuesday the early resignation ... to respond to the calls for the new evangelization of St. John Paul II, then to the encouragements of Benedict XVI to welcome and form ...

Much of the book contains familiar stories of Pope Francis' past, his childhood and relationship with his grandmother Rosa, ...

A call for direct debt cancellation made by the late Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee year in 2000 sparked a campaign that resulted in $130 billion of debt cancellation between 2000 and 2015.

Prior to that, the last ordinary jubilee was held in 2000 during the papacy of Pope John Paul II and was known as "the Great Jubilee." During his homily, the pope made repeated references to this ...