At 9:37 p.m. on April 2, 2005, John Paul II left this earth ... who knelt at the Wailing Wall and who crossed the threshold of a synagogue, of a mosque, so that dialogue between faiths would ...

In life, Pope Francis strayed from the more conservative path forged by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict ... behind the Last Judgment wall of the Sistine Chapel.

(photo: Clare Hildebrandt/Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend) When John ... Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The legal scholar Erika Bachiochi got things started March 13 by describing Pope John Paul II ...

Amid the Cold War in 1982 – just years before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 – President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II met at the Vatican.

Trump will be the second sitting U.S. president to attend the funeral of a pope, after President George W. Bush traveled to the Vatican in 2005 to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.

It also showed an image of the pope visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem ... funeral of a pope who died in office, that of Pope John Paul II in 2005. According to the Israeli embassy to the ...

But in doing so, Francis alienated many Catholics and Republicans in the United States who supported Trump and his border wall ... as his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal ... a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. In February 2025, he issued a major ...