The year closed with John Paul named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1994. In January 1995 he went to Manila for the largest World Youth Day ever. Thus, when Evangelium Vitae was issued, John Paul ...

But here in the United States, always a country on a hurry-up schedule, St. John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” promulgated March 25, 1995, has taken a mere 30 years to come into ...

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 ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most powerfully prophetic social justice and peace encyclicals ever ...

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

And with a new generation of young Catholic women attempting to navigate a society increasingly marked by both radical ...

Pope John Paul II waves to the cheering crowd on June 10, 1987, prior to a Mass in Krakow during his visit to Poland. (photo: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP via Getty Images) ...

St. John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae Another reason for declaring ... when we consider the specific elements involved,” the pope stated. “The one eliminated is a human being ...

Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz says the Polish Pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel connected to him today, and Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says John Paul II ...