While the vast majority of U.S. Catholics support capital punishment, Pope John Paul II has declared the Church's near total opposition to the death penalty. In his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae ...

Mother Teresa’s optional memorial has been added to the General Roman Calendar following a decree by the Dicastery for Divine ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to leaders of wealthy ... Meeting prisoners in Rome, John Paul asked that the death penalty, which he called “an unwor ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... Then he said to them, "My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me." ...

The pope avoids any trespassing of theological terminology by preferring affidare to consacrare and also by using the word constellation affidare – consacrare. (cf. Calkins 143-152) John Paul II’s ...

Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that the King and Queen will make state visits to Italy and the Holy See “in early April 2025”. The announcement said they will join the Pope “in celebrating the ...