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 ...

Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae, in which he called on health care professionals to promote a culture of life, was “the final inspiration” for the organization’s founding ...

In his efforts to promote a holistic defense of human life, Pope Francis frequently denounced a "throwaway culture" where ...

Wednesday, 2 April, 2025, marks the 20 th anniversary of Saint Pope ... in John Paul II' teaching was the significance of human life. He dedicated his fourth Encyclical, "Evengelium Vitae ...

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

Despite the two decades since his death, John Paul still has a great deal to teach us about human dignity, God’s boundless mercy and the treasures of our faith.

But in his Praedicate Evangelium pronouncement in 2022 ... the relatively conservative electors elevated by Benedict and Pope John Paul II would vote for Bergoglio to become Pope Francis (though ...

In 2001, Pope John Paul II made Bergoglio a cardinal and appointed ... His Apostolic Constitution, Paredicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel), merged many Vatican departments, eliminated ...

And yet, neither can be sacrificed for the sake of the other. No less than Pope John Paul II has reaffirmed much of Humanae Vitae in his Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and his Theology of the Body ...

Described as a “pastoral framework”, the 40-page document marks the thirtieth anniversary of John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae in 1995. “Life is always a good” urges parishes an ...