There have been just seven papal elections in the last 100 years, with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor ...

Pope John Paul II remained in office until his death in 2005. He made more visits to the U.S., but did not make another trip to Chicago after that 1979 visit. Pope Benedict XVI made one visit to ...

World leaders are expected to sit in alphabetical order according to the name of their country in French, in line with Vatican protocol that also dictated Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005.

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II. March 13, 2013: Elected 266th pope, the first from the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name Francis, after St ...

The most recent pope to be canonized was Paul VI in 2018. Four years earlier, John XXIII and John Paul II became saints at a joint ceremony.. For most of the church’s history, decades usually ...

JOHN PAUL: The papacy’s first composite name was chosen by Cardinal Albino Luciani in 1978 to honor Pope John XXIII, who opened the Vatican Council II process that reformed the Catholic Church ...

(Twenty-two were appointed by Benedict, and 5 by Pope John Paul II.) The conclave, illustrated: The step-by-step process used to elect new pope to succeed Pope Francis How long will a conclave take?

Fittingly, when John Paul II visited the Basilica of Esztergom, he celebrated Mass over the relics of the Hungarian Holy Family, since relics of Stephen, Gisela and Emeric rest together in the ...

John Paul specifically asked that his body be returned to Poland. But the cardinals said no, and he was buried in the Vatican,” he said. “As with John Paul II, this is a case where the pope ...

Pope Francis, 266th occupant of the throne of St. Peter, has died Pope Francis, orginally of Argentina, ... In 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him as a cardinal.

There have been just seven papal elections in the last 100 years, with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor ...