Pope John Paul II

Vatican foundation continues St. John Paul II's mission

Katarzyna Szalajko · September 8, 2026

The John Paul II Vatican Foundation will celebrate its 45th anniversary in Rome Oct. 19-22, bringing together members of its international community and culminating in a private audience with Pope Leo XIV.

Priest's museum in India will honour John Paul II, Mother Teresa and offer 'silent evangelization'

Rick Snizek · July 18, 2026

Father Vijay Kiran proudly sports two lapel pins on his clerical suit jacket: one for St. John Paul II and one for St. Teresa of Kolkata.

Karol Wojtyla Sr.: an ordinary father's extraordinary role in shaping a pope

OSV News · June 21, 2026

Karol Wojtyla Sr., the father of the future St. John Paul II, raised his son alone after the death of his wife, leaving an enduring example of fatherhood rooted in faith.

Memories of St. John Paul II

‘He belonged to the world’

Susan Korah · April 18, 2026

As choral and instrumental music, accompanied by the soaring voice of a Polish soprano, filled the flower-decorated interior of Ottawa’s Notre Dame Basilica and wafted to its sky blue, star-studded ceiling, Maria Knapik sat at one of the pews, listening with rapt attention.

Report shows Cardinal Wojtyla's actions were 'exemplary' in abuse cases, refuting previous claims

Paulina Guzik · March 23, 2026

In 2023, following a major television documentary claiming that St. John Paul II had covered up clerical sexual abuse when he was leading the Archdiocese of Kraków, Polish experts rejected the claim and urged that archdiocesan records be opened to allow the full context.

Editorial

Bureaucracy gone wild

April 3, 2025

The late Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev lacked the bureaucratic cheek to tell Pope John Paul II to go fly a kite.

Statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Pope John Paul II Day

Catholic Register Staff · April 2, 2025

Today, Catholics and Canadians of many faiths remember a man who shaped our world. Pope John Paul II was one of the truly consequential figures of the twentieth century.

John Paul II still drives cause of freedom

Paulina Guzik · April 2, 2025

As the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s death approached April 2, top world leaders and thinkers gathered here to discuss the legacy of a pope whose faith continues the drive for freedom in today’s world.

Giving all to be given all by Christ

Cheryl-Ann Smith · February 11, 2025

There are times when life changes dramatically. Sometimes it’s organic and expected, for example in the teenage years, midlife, older age. These transitions can be frightening in their seismic shifts, but we cannot stand still or atrophy, and grace awaits us in each stage.