On May 1, 2011, the late pope John Paul II was beatified as a precursor to sainthood after being credited for miraculously curing a French nun of Parkinson’s disease. On that day, the family of ...

The Vatican announced Friday that Pope John Paul II would be declared a saint after it was proven he had performed two miracles - both of them after his death.

April 25, 2014— -- Miracles from France and Costa Rica helped Pope John Paul II blaze the fastest path to sainthood in the history of the Catholic church. While some wait decades -- even ...

The Vatican has ruled that Pope John Paul II is responsible for her mircale, which clears the way for his sainthood. (Enrique Martinez / Associated Press) By Lawrence M. Krauss ...

It makes a great story. Jory Aebly’s miraculous recovery from an execution-style gunshot to the head bolsters Pope John Paul II’s case for sainthood. Except that four years after the legendary ...

Pope Approves John Paul II's Miracle. January 14, 2011 / 7:15 AM EST / CBS/AP VATICAN CITY - During his 2005 funeral Mass, crowds at the Vatican shouted for Pope John Paul II to be made a saint ...

Pope John Paul II was officially declared a saint on Friday by Pope Francis, who attributed to him a miracle involving a Costa Rican woman who had suffered from a cerebral aneurysm. The ...

Pope John Paul II led the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005 - during the fall of communism, including in his native country of Poland. But human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell questioned ...

She couldn’t believe her eyes. There, on the paper before her, she had written Pope John Paul II’s name in handwriting clear enough to read. “The pen skipped across the page,&#822… ...

Pope John Paul II being cleared for sainthood: Vatican 00:28. Updated at 9:11 a.m. Eastern. VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Friday cleared Pope John Paul II for sainthood, approving a miracle ...

The Vatican this week marks the fifth anniversary of Pope John Paul II's death amid some doubts that the miracle needed for his saint-making cause will stand up to scrutiny and questions about his ...

Floribeth Mora, the Costa Rican woman whose inexplicable curing of her medical condition has been attributed to a miracle by Pope John Paul II, shows a magazine of John Paul during a news conference.