John Paul spent so much time on the 10th floor papal suite that he referred to Gemelli as “Vatican III” — a reference that ...

While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

With Vatican pomp and ceremony, New York's archbishop is elevated to cardinal In a ceremony full of pomp and pageantry in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, on Feb. 21, 2001, a frail Pope John ...

John Paul was teaching the world how to suffer and to die, which is an important part of how to live. “John Paul II is aging, deteriorating and moving closer to his death,” I wrote.