Pope John Paul II, who was elected in Oct. 1978, was 58 years old when he was elected, and his predecessors, Pope John Paul I and Paul VI, were both 65 years of age. Local Chicago Violence 18 mins ago ...

COMMENTARY: The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter three times, ‘Do you love me?’ ...

Mr. Luce is the U.S. national editor and a columnist at The Financial Times. In 1979, during John Paul II’s first visit to the United States as pope, he met with President Jimmy Carter at the ...

In 1994, when Time magazine named Pope John Paul II “Man of the Year,” a small group of its editors and correspondents flew to Rome to meet and honor him. After a private audience, Thomas ...

John Paul II wrote in his ecclesial game plan for the third Christian millennium, Novo Millennio Ineunte (2001), that the Church is essentially a vocational school meant to train people to become ...

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St. John Paul II’s example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, especially in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel ...

According to St. John Paul II’s official biographer, George Weigel, living in Nazi-occupied Poland was “the most formative experience of Karol Wojtyla’s life,” shaping the future pope’s ...

Pope John Paul II, in an unprecedented midnight appearance in his apartment window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, blesses worshippers gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the new ...

John Paul II changed all this, dramatically, in 1983. The trial was replaced by an academic-historical process, in which the key document is a biography of the candidate, prepared according to ...

Pope John Paul II died on April 2, 2005, at age 84. The Polish-born pontiff had the third-longest papal reign in history and the second-longest of the modern era.

George Weigel, the author of a new biography of Pope John Paul II, will talk about the pope during a lecture at Loyola University Chicago.Weigel has been studying the pope since shortly after his ...