By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is ... placed on a raised pedestal. When John Paul II died in 2005, his body was first brought ...

A group of faithful gathered under the statue of John Paul II at Gemelli hospital on Sunday afternoon to pray for Pope ...

In his absence, the Vatican’s day-to-day operations continued alongside celebrations of its Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century Jubilee that brings millions of pilgrims to Rome. On Sunday, ...