The 64-year-old Yan Pei-Ming is a contemporary artist who has been living in France since 1981. He is known for his “epic-sized” portraits of figures such as Chairman Mao, St. Pope John Paul II, Bruce ...

Besides the Holy Doors, other factors have contributed to the high number of people visiting Rome and other parts of Italy to ...

following Queen Elizabeth II’s travels to the Vatican during the 2000 Jubilee Year. The queen attended a private meeting with Pope John Paul II, one of five popes she encountered through her ...

It was an experience of courage and hope because even though we do not have a common language, we still tried to speak to one ...

It was the year of the bad war ... first established by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1963 during the II Vatican Council. There had been discussions and delays and unauthorized interim reports ...

Included in the painting are figures of the local bishop as well as Pope Pius XII (who consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942), Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI. The four ...

It blends easily into the spiritual journey of the Christian life, which, after two thousand years ... I would mention Blessed John XXIII 4 and above all Pope Paul VI, who in his Apostolic ...

Vigorously debated in the years immediately ... his predecessor John XXIII and he made a few clarifications about the problem of birth regulation. Our interest here is how the Pope described ...

In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged ... Already at the end of the Great Jubilee he had said: "it is especially necessary that ...

Under the theme “Young Pilgrims of Hope,” National Youth Day aligns with the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope ... a young Chilean beatified by Pope John Paul II—set the spiritual tone for ...

Over the Feb. 8-9 weekend, approximately 30,000 men and women from more than 100 countries participated in various ...