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3 days ago · In Dives in Misericordia, which John Paul II wrote in 1980, three years after being elected pope, he focused on God’s mercy especially shown through Jesus Christ. He wrote: Christ confers on the whole of the Old Testament tradition about God’s mercy a definitive meaning.
3 days ago · His papacy brought significant changes and left a lasting legacy. 07. Elected as Pope on October 16, 1978. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the youngest pope of the 20th century. 08. He took the name John Paul II in honor of his predecessors. His choice reflected a desire to continue the work of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.
1 day ago · The council met in Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for four periods (or sessions), each lasting between 8 and 12 weeks, in the autumn of each of the four years 1962 to 1965. Pope John XXIII called the council because he felt the Church needed "updating" (in Italian: aggiornamento ).
4 days ago · Saint John Paul II died on April 2, 2005. However, the late pope survived two assassination attempts, one of which provided the faithful with a shirt relic the church preserves and venerates today. The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul preserve this important relic in Rome.
1 day ago · His latest book is Now Chiefly Poetical, and he co-edited John Paul II in the Holy Land: In His Own Words. His work has been anthologized in Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian-Americana, and he was awarded the Foley Poetry Prize from America Magazine.
5 days ago · In Veritatis splendor John Paul II traces many of the recent deviations in moral theology to the denial of the dependence of freedom on truth. Authentic freedom, he says, “is never freedom ‘from’ the truth but always freedom ‘in’ the truth” (VS 64).
4 days ago · FILE - Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the ...
