Whether she’s leading a hike in a national park or facilitating a study group, Jen Messing often finds herself talking with youth and adults about the union of body and soul. Messing, 50, has tried to ...

Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I, are pictured in Venice in September 1972. The editorial director of Vatican News, Andrea Tornielli, wrote in a June 21 article ...

Pope John Paul I walks at the Vatican in 1978. In a preface to a book of the late pope’s teachings, Pope Francis said they highlight “the simple walking in faith of the apostles.” (Credit: CNS file ...

Venerable John Paul I was born Albino Luciani on Oct. 17, 1912 in the town of Canale d'Argordo in northern Italy’s Belluno province. He was the most recent pope to be born in Italy and the first pope ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the dominant ...