For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

The cross, which stood over the altar as Pope St. John Paul II celebrated Mass in Philadelphia in 1979 then moved to the ...

Read our review of Die Fledermaus at The Grange Festival, Alresford, Hampshire. Paul Curran’s staging of Johann Strauss II’s ...

Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, Philadelphia, and Des Moines before arriving in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Fond of Johann Georg Schmidtner’s “Mary, Untier of Knots,” Francis commissioned a replica. It has hung in the Buenos Aires’ Church of San José del Talar in since 1996.

Chris Paul II, son of NBA all-star Chris Paul, plays for his father’s CP3 Nike-sponsored travel team. CP3 played in a Phenom Hoops event in Rock Hill last weekend Kelly Hood Special to The Observer ...

Candles, flowers and a portrait of Pope Francis are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized in Rome on Feb. 22, 2025. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via ...

A ciborium used during Pope John Paul II’s 1987 visit to Los Angeles, California Pope John Paul II and Reagan met in-person four times. Their first meeting was at the Vatican on June 7, 1982.

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.

The National Catholic Reporter, Oct. 3, 2019, Pope signs decrees in causes for St. John Paul's mentor, two martyrs The Vatican, April 24, 2014, Canonization of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II ...

Pope John Paul II closed the gap, tying it 7-7 before tacking on another three straight points for a 10-7 cushion, never looking back. “They’re competitors, so I think that was going to happen.

Pope John Paul II defensive back Brent Mitala (5) meets Archbishop Ryan running back Dave Laws (2) in the open field at Northeast High School on Sept. 2. (Evan Wheaton – MediaNews Group) ...