Calling the shroud “a mirror of the Gospel” and “a unique sign that points to Jesus,” Pope John Paul commended the ... he ingeniously connected the burial tomb, the death of Jesus, and ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Pope Francis next month as the Catholic leader continues to battle a life ...

The pope was hospitalized Feb. 14-March 23 after a case of bronchitis worsened, making it difficult for him to breathe. He ...

Home from the hospital after more than five weeks, Pope Francis is showing "slight improvements" in his breathing, ability to ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... Joseph wrapped it [in] clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a ...

ASSISI, Italy (AP) — As Pope Francis entered his third week in a hospital battling ... are still seen as an example of the kind of interfaith dialogue that St. John Paul II promoted by gathering ...

Pope St. John Paul II called him “The Man of Our Lady ... The cardinal also was asked to close the tomb that they had kept open during that week. “I saw him at that moment like an icon ...

King Charles will become the first British monarch to visit the Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome during a ...

In the 2010 book “On Heaven and Earth,” written alongside his friend the Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Francis denounced the cruelty that confronts elderly people. He shamed families who shut their ...

The 88-year-old pope is merely responding to the sometimes morbid interest in the health of popes over centuries, and is making his own the somewhat-mixed legacy of St. John Paul II. The Polish ...

and is making his own the somewhat-mixed legacy of St. John Paul II. The Polish pope suffered from Parkinson’s disease, and his decline was on public view for years. But the Vatican never ...