It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

Fixing a wheel to his cross, he visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and ...

Relations have also been boosted by the King’s interest in religious faith and respect for the Catholic Church, while the Pope gifted relics of the True Cross ... of Pope John Paul II.

Diocese of Ogdensburg Bishop Terry R. LaValley designates 11 pilgrimage sites during the Ordinary Jubilee 2025.

Mr. Blessitt constructed a wooden cross to hang on the wall. He sometimes hoisted the ... Later that year, after visiting Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, his cross was stolen in Assisi, Italy ...

Here are several of those martyrs and their stories, listed by religious order: Order of Carmelites (OCD) St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ... in 1999 by Pope John Paul II.

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991 ... So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

A large cross used by Pope John Paul II during a 1979 mass held in Auschwitz, then in Communist-controlled Poland, was raised in 1989 when Poland regained its democracy; it still stands at the ...