COMMENTARY: Like his Polish predecessor, the first American Pope stresses the complementarity of reason and faith.

During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".

A gold and crystal casing holding drops of the blood of Saint Pope John Paul II was stolen from the cathedral of the central Italian city of Spoleto, its bishop said on Thursday.

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 1981, Mehmet Ali Ağca shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square, nearly killing him. A year later, a rogue priest attacked again. Both times, the Pope survived — and famously forgave his ...

The Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association released its girls volleyball Class 3A week four power rankings Tuesday afternoon. PIAA state champion Pope John Paul II remains on top for the fourth ...

A mob of pro-Palestine protestors in Italy have defaced a statue of the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti labelling him a "fascist". The act of vandalism comes just weeks after thugs smashed up an ...

Fontainebleau coach Kacie Mulé gave her team a simple message. Locked in a battle during Pope John Paul II’s Pink Game on Oct. 1, the long-time head coach told her players that going five sets “would ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Italian Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, a department the pope himself once led. The appointment, announced Sept. 26, marks Leo’s ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — With the appointments, Pope Leo XIV is effectively handing Archbishop Filippo Iannone the keys of the curial offices that made him a force to be reckoned with at the last conclave ...

The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78. She passed away in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984 after escaping the U.S. prison system, ...

St. John Henry Newman, a British-born scholar who dedicated much of his life to the combination of faith and intellect at universities, is pictured in an undated portrait. Credit: OSV News file ...