A historical parallel: Pope John Paul II and the Cold War To understand ... His 1979 visit to Poland inspired the Solidarity movement and galvanised resistance to communist rule.

A Polish government official has urged countries to run regular public campaigns to raise awareness about the potential of ...

As the news that Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo XIII percolated into public, my phone buzzed frenetically. I saw ...

Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff to operationalize ... and Sisters All”) offered a sweeping vision of interreligious solidarity, drawing inspiration from his namesake, St. Francis ...

Also with him were books, including St. John Paul II’s biography “A Celebration ... but a promise to honor the legacy of Pope Francis by turning remembrance into a movement. “The greatest tsunami now ...

The anti-Israel brigade is bringing back memories from my days of hardcore radicalism: I find it to be so very bizarre: Back ...

Just as Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II worked to defeat the USSR, Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV can confront Putin’s Russia. In recent history, the most influential pope in global politics ...

Pope Leo XIV, an Augustinian friar, has been shaped by deep interiority and the theology of longing and memory. He personally ...

Donation Options Search Search Search St. Mary of the Assumption Parish included this photo commemorating the 1982 meeting of a newly ordained Robert Prevost and Pope John Paul II in its 1986 book ...

When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

They have some understanding of the papacy’s powers to change public perception: When Pope John Paul II was elected in 1978, it raised the profile of both his hometown, Wadowice, and the entire ...

Pope John Paul II took up the role of disruptor with a papacy aimed at reinstating orthodoxy as opposed to Vatican II reforms. Pope Benedict XVI was then elected in 2005 to continue guiding the ...