Tag: Catholicism

A picture of late Pope John Paul II is displayed inside St. Sprit in Sassia church during a mass in Rome, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Hundred thousands of pilgrims and faithful are expected to reach Rome to attend the scheduled April 27 ceremony at the Vatican in which Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A look at deeds and words of John Paul II

Frances D'emilio · April 24, 2014 5:49 pm

A detail of the bullet drilled and bloodstained undershirt worn by Pope John Paul II during the assassination attempt on May, 13, 1981, kept at the Daughters of Charity, in Rome, Thursday, April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Bloodied shirt, unwashed fork: JPII relics abound

Frances D'emilio · April 24, 2014 10:26 am

FILE - In this April 15, 1963 file photo, Pope John XXIII sits at his working desk in his studio in a IX century tower in the Vatican gardens. In background the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. The Pontiff found the tower - once a fortress and later the Vatican observatory - abandoned and in decay. He liked it, particularly for the beautiful view from its covered terrace, embracing a great part of Rome and the surrounding country, in clear weather as far as the sea, distant about 25 kilometers (16 miles). He had it repaired and spends many days working in the studio he has had arranged there. While much of the focus of Sunday's dual canonization will be on Pope John Paul II's globe-trotting, 26-year papacy and his near-record sprint to sainthood, many older Catholics will be celebrating the short but historic pontificate of the "Good Pope," John XXIII. (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)

Pope John XXIII launched Vatican II and then some

Nicole Winfield · April 23, 2014 6:33 am

Baltimore archbishop to see canonizations

Baltimore archbishop to see canonizations

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2014 7:34 pm

Monsignor Slawomir Oder, postulator of late Pope John Paul II, right, speaks during a press conference in Vatican City, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Polish priest Oder, who has spearheaded the case to make Pope John Paul II a saint, says there is no documentation that he had any "personal involvement" in the scandal of the Legion of Christ religious order. John Paul and his closest advisers had held up the Legion and its late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, as a model for the faithful, even though the Vatican for decades had documentation with credible allegations that Maciel was a pedophile and drug addict with a questionable spiritual life. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

John Paul saint-maker: Pope not involved in Legion

DANIELA PETROFFNICOLE WINFIELD · April 22, 2014 5:45 pm

FILE - In this April 2, 20014 file photo an unusually empty main square with a commemorative cross in downtown Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday, April 2, 20014 during observances marking nine years since the death of much-loved Polish-born Pope John Paul II. Over the years, the observances attract fewer and fewer people in an a sign that the enthusiasm that the Poles accord one of their greatest countrymen is gradually dissipating.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

No JPII fever in Poland as canonization nears

Monika Scislowska · April 22, 2014 10:49 am

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped bring down communism, of inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globe-trotting papacy and of explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium. But the sexual abuse scandal that festered under his watch remains a stain on his legacy. John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the severity of the abuse problem until very late in his 26-year papacy, even though U.S. bishops had been petitioning the Holy See since the late-1980s for a faster way to defrock pedophile priests. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)

John Paul’s legacy stained by sex abuse scandal

Nicole Winfield · April 21, 2014 3:02 pm

To TV network news, Easter is more about Peeps than Christ. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Study: TV networks have ‘War on Easter’

Paul Bedard · April 20, 2014 4:00 am

At Easter vigil, Pope seeks to bring faith to ‘ends of the Earth’

Nicole Winfield · April 19, 2014 8:53 pm

Pope washes feet of elderly, disabled in rite

Nicole Winfield · April 17, 2014 6:16 pm

Pope Francis exchanges a skull cap with a participant in the audience as he tours with his pope mobile St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope gives a lift to 2 kids in St. Peter’s Square

Washington Examiner · April 16, 2014 10:41 am

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis delivers his blessing during a meeting with the Italian pro-life movement, at the Vatican Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope assumes responsibility for priest sex abuse

Nicole Winfield · April 11, 2014 6:18 pm