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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

Pope Francis has thrown a wrench in some of the speculation about a future conclave. He's decided to extend the term of the ...

He was Pope John Paul II, not Jean Paul II. The article also misstated the terms of the clemency that President Biden bestowed to inmates on death row. The inmates remain in prison without the ...