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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When John Paul II called for a “new feminism” in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), one that rejected the “the temptation of imitating models of ‘male domination ...

I grew up in the legacy of John Paul II, a pope whose courage was pastoral as much as political. His writings, especially Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”), feel as though they were ...

George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II, lamented that the Pontifical Academy for Life betrayed Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, its founding president, with a book that dissents from the pontiff’s ...

Another reason for declaring March 25 the Day of the Unborn Child is that on that day in 1995, St. John Paul II published the encyclical Evangelium Vitae (“The Gospel of Life”), in which he ...

Pope John Paul II during Mass at a farm in rural Iowa, on Oct. 4, 1979, during his first visit to the United States. (Wally McNamee/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

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 ...