COMMENTARY: The threats to human dignity and the sanctity of life that Jérôme Lejeune and John Paul II strove so mightily to ...

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca ...

At the dawn of the new millennium, we wish to propose once more the message of hope which comes from the stable of Bethlehem: God loves all men and women on earth and gives them the hope of a new era, ...

For children in New York ... And in Washington, the Pope said..." Pope John Paul II: "All human life, from the moments of conception and through all subsequent stages, is sacred." ...

Pope John Paul II prepares Communion during an outdoor Mass he celebrated on September 13, 2003 in the town of Roznava, Slovakia. (photo: Sean Gallup / Getty) ...

Grant that there may be no lack of “laborers in the Lord’s vineyard.” Sanctify families. Watch over the souls of the young and the hearts of the children. Help us to overcome the great moral threats ...

(Pope John Paul II was elected after eight votes that took two days.) With each unsuccessful vote, the cardinals release black smoke through a chimney visible from Saint Peter's Basilica.

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 ...

A reverent drama about the life of Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. Cary Elwes portrays Wojtyla as a younger man; Jon Voight plays him in his later years. The story begins with the ...

Eighth-seeded Pope John Paul II relied on its dominating pitching as the Jaguars earned a 10-0 mercy-rule-shortened victory on April 27 that clinched a Division III second-round playoff sweep over ...