Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul II embraced ... mercy and love,” the cardinal ...

German-born Joseph Ratzinger told ... that a successor to John Paul II has been elected. Crowds in the square chanted: "Viva il Papa!" or "Long live the Pope!" The smoke, seen by thousands in ...

The first cardinal to arrive on time at the basilica was the elderly Cardinal Camillo Ruini, bent over and in a wheelchair, he could not miss being present. He settled in the front row. Next to ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- During his long and fruitful pontificate, St. John Paul ... cardinal said during a memorial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica April 2, the 20th anniversary of the late Polish ...

Church leaders in India marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II on Wednesday, paying tribute to the ...

Cardinal Dziwisz had been at John Paul II’s side as his personal secretary since 1966, when the future Pope was the new archbishop of Krakow. He said he and others “opened the window ...