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, in an unprecedented midnight ...

St. Pope John Paul II wrote in 1994,”I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Chu ...

Pope Francis Sunday raised the first Uruguayan national to sainthood from St. Peter's Square when he ... Mother Rubatto was blessed by Pope John Paul II Oct. 10, 1993, after she was recognized ...

On Jan. 18, the cardinal celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving in St. Stephen’s Cathedral for ... of the Catholic Church and in 1991, Pope John Paul II named the theologian an auxiliary bishop ...

Thanks to his work, he was named the patron saint of the internet in 1997 by Pope John Paul II, recognising his impact on knowledge and communication. Importantly, understanding Isidore’s life ...

Pointing to the perils of pastoral pessimism, Pope Francis urged a congregation of teaching sisters on Saturday to cultivate joy in their ministry, warning them that stern countenances drive ...

Pope Francis kisses a wooden statuette of the infant Jesus at the end of a mass in St Peter’s Basilica at ... Pope Francis is often contrasted with John Paul II, but the differences can be ...

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.

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

The late St. Pope John Paul II’s famous 1986 interfaith peace gathering in Assisi, Italy, and similar prayerful summits that followed since is a Nostra Aetate fruit Watson will explore during this ...

then the Pope's visit achieved a great deal." John Paul II, aged 74, visited Australia on 19 January 1995. He beatifies Mother Mary Mackillop and encouraged her to become the first Australian saint.

"St. Pope John Paul II had the last clear word on this and it stands, this stands," Francis said. Francis was referring to a 1994 document by Pope John Paul that closed the door on a female priesthood ...