According to a Vatican statement ... In fact, it quotes the messages for the World Day of Peace in 1990 and 2010, from St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, respectively, which warned of ...

During a routine Vatican press briefing the day before Pope John Paul II died, the usually composed ... topics and reporting back on how the pope's messages were received by the press, said ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis spends part of his days at his desk working and concelebrates Mass daily in his private ...

COMMENTARY: Looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s legacy in historical context underscores why so many people call him ‘John ...

Nevertheless, as on the previous four Sundays, he sent a brief written message which the Vatican released at midday ... at the statue of St. John Paul II in front of the hospital, accompanied ...

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

Pope Francis is back home in the Vatican after spending 38 days in Rome ... around the statue of St. John Paul II, waiting for the pope to appear at the hospital window. The statue of his ...

Francis began his written message ... but Vatican officials say his absence hasn't significantly impacted the numbers of expected pilgrims arriving. Only St. John Paul II recorded a longer ...

It followed an audio message Francis recorded March ... While many in the Vatican have held up St. John Paul II’s long and public battle with Parkinson’s disease and other ailments as a ...