Tag: Vatican

Francis deeply influenced by both saintly popes

DANIELA PETROFFNICOLE WINFIELD · April 26, 2014 7:58 am

FILE - In this June 16, 1999 file photo Pope John Paul II waves from outside the basilica during his visit to Wadowice, Poland, the town where he was born and grew up. The basilica was his parish church, where he was baptized, served as an altar boy and stopped to pray on his way to school. A central point in Wadowice, the basilica has a chapel dedicated to John Paul with a reliquary containing a drop of his blood. (AP/Photo Rudi Blaha, File)

5 places in Poland associated with John Paul II

Monika Scislowska · April 26, 2014 7:54 am

Francis praises saintly popes as good, heroic

The Associated Press · April 26, 2014 6:48 am

Women cross themselves as they walk past an effigy of Pope John Paul II, kept under glass at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Friday, April 25, 2014. The canonization of Pope John Paul II is drawing special attention in Latin America, reviving both warm memories of his frequent visits to the region and debate over his handling of sex-abuse scandals.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

John Paul II sainthood stirs Latin Americans

Eduardo Castillo · April 26, 2014 12:25 am

Pope Francis is silhouetted as he leaves after his meeting with Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama and his wife Linda, at the Vatican, Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

Vatican: Pope’s private calls don’t reflect policy

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2014 7:48 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

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

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

Vatican bank gets pope’s blessing to keep going

Frances D'emilio · April 7, 2014 4:12 pm