Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, begins the Church’s celebration of Holy Week, which includes Holy Thursday — commemorating the Last Supper — Good Friday — where we remember Christ’s crucifixion and death for all sinners — the Easter Vigil on
An English translation of St. John Paul II's "rule" for married couples is now available to the general public -- for the very first time. "St. John Paul II's Rule gives spouses the key to unlock how to authentically live out their
The bishops of Poland March 14 announced they will create a commission of experts to investigate cases of abuse of minors by clergy from the past in the country -- an investigation that would cover the era that St. John Paul II
The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla -- the future Pope John Paul II -- knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say.
What remains to be answered is what he knew, from whom
As David Werning continues his Church documents’ series, this month he writes on Veritatis Splendor, the encyclical of Pope St. John Paul II that offers a “profound meditation on the Church’s moral teaching, which is based in truth, the source of which
November 22 marks the fourtieth anniversary of Pope Saint John Paul II’s seminal apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, which expounded on the role of the family in the Church and world. To mark this special anniversary, writers Soren and Ever Johnson, founders and
In his latest column, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes: “It’s sometimes said that Pope St. John Paul II was the most intellectually gifted occupant of the See of Peter ever, but inasmuch as the line of popes stretches back
On Wednesday, May 13, 1981, 20,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square on a warm, sunny day in Rome, eager to glimpse and greet Pope John Paul II. Suddenly, shots rang out. With his white cassock bloodied, the pope falls back into
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, Mary FioRito writes that with her Senate confirmation hearings finished, Judge Amy Coney Barrett personified what Pope St. John Paul II wrote about in his 1995 Letter to Women, which said: “From the heart
Russell Shaw looks at the state of our culture and asks: Is there any realistic way to bring Americans back together in mutual understanding and respect while restoring a sense of shared purpose? To begin to see what such a community might