Remembering: St John Paul was world’s conscience and modern-day apostle

St John Paul II, who died on 2nd April 2005, at the age of 84, was a voice of conscience for the world and a modern-day apostle for his Church. He had a philosopher’s intellect, a pilgrim’s spiritual intensity and an actor’s flair for the dramatic, making him one of the most forceful moral leaders... Read More

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February 6, 2020

‘He was a great,’ Pope Francis says of St John Paul II

St John Paul II taught the world that truly great faith and holiness dwell in “the normality of a person who lives in profound communion with Christ”, Pope Francis said in a new book. Precisely because he allowed people to see he was a human being – whether skiing or praying, hiking or suffering –... Read More

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October 16, 2019

Wonder Woman star to play Catholic social worker in WW2 thriller

A Hollywood actress will star in a new historical film about a Catholic woman who saved Jewish children. Gal Gadot, best-known for her starring role in 2017 film Wonder Woman, will play Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who helped smuggle thousands of Jewish children in Warsaw during World War II. The Israeli actress will also... Read More

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October 11, 2019

Excitement at canonisation of spiritual ‘giant’ Newman

John Henry Newman was a spiritual ‘giant’ and ‘a very important figure,’ according to the British ambassador to the Holy See. Sally Axworthy was speaking ahead of Newman’s canonisation in Rome on 13 October. “Cardinal Newman was really a very important figure. He was a giant of the 19th century,” she said. She spoke of... Read More

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January 21, 2019

New book by St John Paul shows early political, social philosophy

A new two-volume manuscript on political and social philosophy, authored by St John Paul II in the 1950s, will dispel views of him as “an intellectual cut off from social concerns” and clarify his lifelong stance on political and ideological issues, said the book’s editor. The 120,000-word collection by then-Fr Karol Wojtyla, released for the... Read More

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August 20, 2018

Pope fans recall 1979 Ireland visit of John Paul II

It has been almost 40 years since the last Papal visit in Ireland, when Pope John Paul II toured for three days drawing in crowds of millions. During his trip to Ireland in 1979, the Pope visited Dublin, Drogheda, Galway, Knock and Maynooth. An estimated 2.7 million people went to see him, with many travelling... Read More

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August 19, 2018

New film of St John Paul’s visit to Ireland to be screened at Westminster Cathedral

In September 1979, St John Paul visited Ireland – the first visit to Ireland by a Pope. It marked the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady, at Knock, in August 1879. His visit also marked the beginning of Ireland’s Peace Process as nearly 300,000 heard his appeal at Drogheda to the men of violence:... Read More

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