Resist the urge to see Pope John XXIII as a liberal and John Paul II as a conservative, writes James Martin. Like all saints, the two defy easy labels.

Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council on Oct. 11, 1962. Three years of preparatory work had set the stage for an extraordinary five-hour pageant, as 2,500 Catholic bishops, each vested ...

Father Califano indicated that Pope John XXIII, known as the “good” pope, also had faults and “used to worry too much about things.” But, he added, the late pope also “had a sense of ...

VATICAN CITY, June 3 -- The disinterred body of Pope John XXIII, the much-loved pontiff who initiated radical changes in the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s, was wheeled through St. Peter's ...

These two words Pope John XXIII said to the College of Cardinals on Jan. 25, 1959, went on to shape the Catholic Church and affect the lives of Catholics and non-Catholics ever since they were spoken.

Vatican City, Oct 29, 2008 / 08:25 am. Yesterday afternoon Pope Benedict XVI spoke at a Mass in honor of the 50th anniversary of Blessed Pope John XXIII’s election as Pope.