On Sept. 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II — whose feast the Church celebrates on Oct. 22 — issued the encyclical Fides et Ratio on the relationship between faith and reason. John Paul II opened the ...
To have come of age during such an extraordinary succession of popes has been a true grace in my life. Each pope I have known has brought something unique, not just to the papacy, but to my own ...