John Paul, however, saw an opportunity to draw Christian wisdom from Dylan’s lyrics.

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

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew ...

Pope John Paul II Preparatory School is approaching full strength again as it tries to follow up on last year’s TSSAA basketball state tournament Division II-AA semifinals appearance.

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

Pope John Paul II granted it recognition as an official Catholic religious community in 1997. The group has been the subject of several investigations by the Peruvian prosecutors' office and the ...

The partnership between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan to combat communism belongs to the past, and the powerful alliance between President George W. Bush and the neoconservative ...

Meanwhile Pole Karol Wojtyla, who would eventually become Pope John Paul II, was trained and ordained in complete secrecy in Communist Poland. When he became the first non-Italian pope for 450 ...

He was editorial secretary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in 1991, Pope John Paul II named the theologian an auxiliary bishop of Vienna. After being appointed coadjutor archbishop of ...

Pope Francis is often contrasted with John Paul II, but the differences can be exaggerated. Francis may have a more inclusive tone, but he has changed very little, if any, church teaching.