Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University, where the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences is located. (photo: calu777/flickr / (CC BY 2.0)) ...

Veritatis Splendorwas dated on Aug. 6, 1993 (Feast of the Transfiguration) even though it was released in October, and signed “at St. Peter’s” even though in August St. John Paul II was at ...

The Church of Saint John Lateran burned twice in the 14 th century, ... Gerbert d'Aurillac, the man who became Pope Sylvester II, is said to have practiced black magic.

Pope Francis’ meeting with Tawadros II in 2013 marked the first visit of a Coptic Orthodox patriarch to Rome in 40 years. Francis also met with Tawadros II during a visit to Cairo in 2017.

A pastoral institute was established there, and in 1959 John XXIII gave it the status of university, naming it the Pontifical Lateran University. In 1981, John Paul II founded the Pontifical John ...

Vatican City (Fides Service) - The cause for the beatification and canonisation of Pope John Paul II will officially open in the cathedral of Rome, the Basilica of St John in the Lateran on Tuesday 28 ...

Perhaps most controversially, Pope Francis changed the name and mission of the Lateran University’s John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family. In 2017, the institution, ...

In the edict for the cause for the beatification and canonisation of the Servant of God John Paul II, dated 18 May 2005, the Cardinal Vicar said: “At the moment of his death with the impressive ...