This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II ... is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me." He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, "My Father ...

Bishop Emeritus Paul Cremona has died, aged 79. He was taken to hospital on Tuesday, a week after he had been discharged.

The pope's return home, after the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy and the second-longest in recent papal ...

I also feel supported by the spiritual closeness of all the people of God whom, as I repeated last Sunday, I continue to ask to accompany me with persistent prayer ... by Pope John Paul I ...

We see elsewhere in Philippians this notion of imitating Christ being gain for Paul, whether in death or life. He says: “For I know that through your prayers ... Christ.” John Paul II notes ...

Here’s what we know about the pope’s condition, and about how things would go upon his eventual death. Francis was ... on a raised pedestal. When John Paul II died in 2005, his body was ...

A weak and frail Pope Francis left the hospital Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally ... own the somewhat-mixed legacy of St. John Paul II. The Polish pope suffered from ...