The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93.

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome ...

I was visited by a young man whose name is John Paul ... In 1994, when Time magazine named Pope John Paul II “Man of the Year,” a small group of its editors and correspondents flew to Rome ...

Today’s day and age needs more holy families — a need that Pope St. John Paul II keenly observed and ... Cardinal Mindszenty described the young man’s exemplary piety: At night, Emeric ...

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world ... Paul II’s “holiness was because he was a man united with God in prayer.” Civitarese saw this ...

COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John Paul the Great.’ ...

He added that it was an important lesson also for young people “who should understand that they too are fragile, otherwise they close themselves off.’’ Pope John Paul II blesses the crowd at ...

The pope in those days was John Paul II, who had the looks of a leading man and the gait of a star athlete when he was elected and kept them both for well over a decade. John Paul II had an ...

but bureaucracy had other plansThis is a story of society's bureaucracy versus one man trying to provide some old-fashioned entertainment in 1994. OMAHA, Neb. — After the death of Pope John Paul II in ...

Dziwisz said John Paul II’s “holiness was because he was a man united with God in prayer.” Civitarese saw this commitment to prayer in action on the pope’s many international trips ...