Older people, however, know John Paul II was anything ... but they don't like the song." From the Americas to Africa, crowds of millions attended large open-air masses to wave maniacally at ...

During John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2000, the frail pontiff visited the Western Wall, the remnant of the ancient Jewish Temple. With quivering hands he placed in ... In 1968, amid a ...

The name was a way of honoring his two long-term predecessors, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI, the two pontiffs responsible for the Vatican II reforms and a new wave of Catholic political activism.

Daley, right, shakes hands with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, who would become known as Pope John Paul II, during his visit ... of thousands greeting him with songs and cheers. He stopped to celebrate ...