By ALYX BARKER

 ROME -- The Statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the train station in Rome does not represent the man we came to know so intimately.

ROME — Italian magistrates have shelved criminal proceedings in connection with the death of respected Belgian foreign correspondent Federic Hacourt at the Fate BeneFratelli hospital on Rome’s isla

 ROME-For close to fifty years, at intervals between 1964 and 2010, I frequently found myself in Rome, usually  in order to write about the Council that Blessed John XX

News Analysis
WASHINGTON -- What will be the historic consequences for the Church of making John Paul II a saint? 

VATICAN CITY — John Paul II’s funeral six years ago drew more than 2 million visitors to Rome, some of whom urged his successor to “make him a saint immediately”.

No one was prepared for the dizzying pace of Pope John Paul II’s global travels as the Polish pontiff’s beatification in the Vatican approa

Rome—When John Paul II became pope in 1978 he inherited a number of relationships that would later prove embarrassing for the Vatican.