World Mission Sunday occupied a special place in the life of St. John Paul the Great, whose 20th anniversary of death fell this year. The inaugural Mass of his pontificate was on Mission Sunday in ...
In April 8, 2005, something happened in Rome that hadn’t happened for over 1,400 years: the congregation at a papal funeral Mass spontaneously proclaimed the deceased Pontiff a saint. The honoree was ...
In John Paul, we saw a man whom God had endowed with prodigious natural gifts: genius-level intelligence, profound poetic ...
Pope Francis also waived Vatican rules to canonize Pope John XXIII. LONDON, July 5, 2013 — -- He was the "Pilgrim Pope," the man who traveled the world inspiring a young generation of Catholics ...
As hundreds of millions of people around the world mourn the passing of Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church is preparing to lay him to rest – an event expected to draw hundreds of thousands of ...
During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".