Pope Francis failed a key moral test in his failure to identify and condemn Russia's war on Ukraine and China's Uyghur ...

The degree of commemoration and memorialisation by the Government and the State appears to fall somewhat short of the last funeral of a sitting pope, that of John Paul II in 2005. Then-taoiseach ...

When Pope John Paul II died in 2005, his funeral was rocked by chants of “Santo Subito!” or “Saint Right Away!” — and it still took nine years, and Francis’s election, before the ...

Pope Francis strayed from the more conservative path forged by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. But in death, Francis will be following in many of John Paul’s footsteps.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was the second pontiff to set foot in Quebec and his visit could not have been more different from that of Pope John Paul II. John Paul’s 1984 ...

There were many interesting and somewhat new aspects in the election of Pope Francis after the death of John Paul II. Francis was the first Jesuit to be chosen pope and the first Latin American ...

Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors and, in the long history of the church, the selection of a new pope has often evidenced a desire to ...

In choosing bishops for America, he did not follow the pattern of Pope John Paul II. “Francis’ top priority is ‘Is he pastoral? Is he concerned about the poor,’ “ wrote Rev. Thomas Reese ...

An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, ...

The open-air funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 drew hundreds of thousands of mourners.Credit...Dylan Martinez/Reuters The College of Cardinals decides on the day and hour that the pope’s body ...