He is now Blessed Pope John Paul II. Shortly after half past ten, to the resounding cheers of hundreds of thousands of faithful and under sunny skies, the Pope read the formula of beatification, ...

Recognizing that Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II have widespread reputations for holiness and that years of studying their lives and actions have proven their exceptional virtue, Pope Francis ...

Pope Benedict XVI has beatified Pope John Paul II. In a ceremony before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in Rome he explained his great admiration and affection for his predecessor. “John Paul II is ...

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C. dedicated the new Blessed John Paul II Seminary at a Mass on Oct. 22, the first feast day of the recently beatified Pope. Cardinal Wuerl called the new ...

POPE John Paul II waves to the huge crowd inside his Popemobile during the 1995World Youth Day in Manila. THE POPEMOBILE, constructed by Francisco Motors, with Jaime Cardinal Sin. It will be exhibited ...

LIPA ARCHBISHOP Ramon Arguelles said that Blessed John Paul II is “a great intercessor of Filipinos.” Arguelles said that when he was rector of the Collegio Filippino before he became a bishop in 1994 ...

Pope John Paul II not only established Divine Mercy Sunday; he died on that day. Now he will be beatified on the feast, which is May 1 this year. After five years of scrupulous investigations, the ...