"It's kind of like closure. I guess like going to a funeral for a family member. It's probably the closest we're ever going to get to Rome to see the actual services," said one of the churchgoers.

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

2. Pope John Paul II The visit of Saint John Paul II to Colombia took place 18 years later, in 1986, and lasted seven days, during which he toured ten cities. On July 1, the Holy Father arrived in ...

were also placed inside the casket. Following the Requiem Mass on Thursday, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's coffin was transported through the Basilica and to the Vatican crypt for burial, in the first ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

The life of Karol Josef Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, represented hope and strength to many people around the world. Millions have joined together in mourning his passing. And though his ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were each other’s favorite audience. That was plainly clear as the besotted Beatles bantered, bickered and obsessed over the 23 years they were friends and rivals.

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

Christ lives in him when he is “crucified with Christ.” John Paul II notes that “Christ also becomes in a particular way united to the man, Paul, through the cross” (SD, 20). Paul reveals ...

General Audience with Pope Francis, 17 avril 2013/Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Pope Francis' health condition seems to ...