TV Guide: Pope John Paul II

Video: Great Souls: Pope John Paul II

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

How a young Polish Catholic boy went from an aspiring actor and an athlete to become the first non-Italian pope in 400 years is a dramatic story. How John Paul used his high office to undermine and help destroy Communism in Eastern Europe while at the same time transforming the Papacy onto a world stage was revolutionary and inspiring, if not controversial at times. Filmed on location in Poland, Rome, London, and the United States, leading churchmen, friends and colleagues, historians, journalists, and his personal biographer examine the character and forces that enabled John Paul II to be acclaimed universally as one of the most important personalities in the twentieth century.

Video: Great Souls: Pope John Paul II

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Video: Moment of Zen - Pope John Paul II

The Daily Show — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Pope John Paul II drools while speaking in Latin. (0:11)

Video: Moment of Zen - Pope John Paul II

The Daily Show — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Pope John Paul II prays in Latin. (0:14)

Video: Mourning Pope John Paul II

CBS News — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Cardinals from around the world are at the Vatican to pay their final respects to Pope John Paul II and to begin choosing the next pope. Father Paul Robichaud explained on The Early Show.

Video: John Paul II, Author

CBS News — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Dealing with such controversial topics as homosexuality and abortion, Pope John Paul II's new book is sure to be a bestseller. Richard Roth reports on the pontiff's text, 'Memory and Identity.'

Video: Pope John Paul's Health

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Pope John Paul II is breathing on his own, after spending time on a respirator and undergoing a tracheotomy. CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth reports.

Video: Pope John Paul II Dead

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Pope John Paul II, history's most traveled pope, died at 84, several weeks after losing the ability to do the thing he loved the most: speak to the faithful. Allen Pizzey reports from Vatican City.

Video: Pope John Paul II Shot

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Week In History: On 13 May, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish gunman, as he entered St. Peter's Square to address an audience.

Video: Reflecting On John Paul II

CBS News — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Monsignor Robert Wister discusses his feelings on the death of Pope John Paul II with CBS News Correspondent Thalia Assuras.

Video: The Voyager Pope

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

On April 2, 2005, a tired voyager has returned to house of his father. Pope John Paul II who helped to defeat Nazism, Communism and urged a resistance to the influence of modern materialism, has passed away at age 84, in his private quarters at the end of a long and public illness. His death brought an end to the Catholic Church's third-longest papacy, a reign that was at once energetic, charismatic and occasionally polarizing. This is his life story.

Video: The Voyager Pope

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Video: Pope John Paul II addresses the U.N.

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500

In October 1995, Pope John Paul II addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the occasion of the U.N.'s fiftieth anniversary, reaffirming his support of the ideals and goals of the U.N.

Video: This Day in History: 05/13/1981 - Pope John Paul II Shot

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Near the start of his weekly general audience in Rome's St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded while passing through the square in an open car.

Video: This Day In History: 04/02/2005 - Pope John Paul II Dies

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0500

On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican.

Video: This Day in History: 5/13/1981 - Pope John Paul II Shot

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:00:00 -0500

This biography video chronicles Pope John Paul II shooting in Rome?s St. Peter?s Square by the Turkish murderer Mehmet Ali Agca on May 13, 1981. Pope John Paul II suffered two shots to his abdomen and spent three weeks in Rome?s Gemelli Hospital.

Video: Life & Times Of Pope John Paul Ii

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500

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Video: Celebration Of Mass: His Holiness Pope John Paul Ii, A

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0500

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Video: Pope and Third Secret of Fatima

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

The third secret of Fatima was purportedly known by only two people: the Pope and Lucia, the Portuguese visionary who in an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917 was given dire prophecies of the future of the planet. Within 7 weeks of each other these two key players have died. This extraordinary story examines the original Fatima visions and how Pope John Paul II believed he was himself the fulfillment of the third secret and that through his obsession with this obscure message saved the world from a thermo nuclear holocaust.

Video: John Paul The Great A Pope Who Made History

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Karol J?zef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. Throughout his early twenties, and during World War II, he had to work in a Nazi-run rock quarry to earn a living and to avoid being deported to Germany. In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Krakow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Sapieha in Krakow on November 1, 1946. He carried out his priesthood under the constant watchful eye of Poland's communist regime. The Cardinals elected him Pope at the Conclave of October 1978, and he took the name of John Paul II. His election sent cheers through his native Poland since he was the first Slav ever to take the seat of St. Peter. His pontificate, one of the longest in the history of the Church, lasted nearly 27 years. During tha