For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' Greg Palkot reflects on covering the two pontiffs.

Pope John Paul II’s nearly 3-hour Mass in Grant Park supposedly attracted 500,000 to 1.5 million people. One Tribune reporter wondered if the park could host a crowd nearly half as large as the ...

Pope Francis is recovering from abdominal surgery this week in the same hospital room where St. John Paul II was treated throughout his pontificate. The Vatican said on June 8 that Francis is ...

Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, Philadelphia, and Des Moines before arriving in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 4.

John Paul specifically asked that his body be returned to Poland. But the cardinals said no, and he was buried in the Vatican,” he said. “As with John Paul II, this is a case where the pope ...

But Pope John Paul II, preaching under an umbrella, wanted to keep saying his outdoor Mass at Tamiami Park during his historic 23-hour visit to Miami-Dade in September 1987.

Pope John Paul II during Mass at a farm in rural Iowa, on Oct. 4, 1979, during his first visit to the United States. (Wally McNamee/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) ...

The most recent pope to die in office was the previous pontiff, Pope John Paul II. He died in April 2005 at age 84, after 26 years in the papacy. Here's what happened after: 1.

Busy Philipps revealed on 'The View' that she had once been "blessed" by Pope John Paul II when she was having a religious crisis after getting an abortion at 15.

"Pope John Paul II shakes hands with West German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican’s chief heresy-fighter, during Christmas greetings in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican City on Friday ...

Pope John Paul II got his own Christmas tree Wednesday, hand delivered from his native Poland by a group of mountaineers from the Tatra mountains. The group, dressed in traditional colorful ...