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4 days ago · John Paul II was the first globally oriented pope, and he increased the global prestige of the papacy. His emphasis on religious and national freedom was unprecedented. He also centralized control over Catholic educational institutions and maintained traditional church positions on gender and sexual issues.
Saint John Paul II is perhaps one of the most well-known pontiffs in recent history, and is most remembered for his charismatic nature, his love of youth and his world travels, along with his...
2 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.
5 days ago · More than any other pope since the early centuries of the Church, John Paul had lived with martyrs and counted martyrs among his friends. For his golden jubilee in 1996, there was a massive celebration in Rome, a great celebration of the priesthood.
Jun 17, 2024 · You probably know that St. Pope John Paul II was the second longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate, and he was the first non-Italian pontiff since the Dutch Pope Adrian VI in 1523. But did you know that he changed the Catholic Church forever during those 27 years? Here are five reasons why: 1.
May 31, 2024 · On 2 April 2005 at 9:37pm local time, Pope John Paul II died in the Papal Apartments with tens of thousands of people holding vigil in Saint Peter's Square below. A crowd of over two million...
Jun 19, 2024 · 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).
Jun 13, 2024 · On 21 March 2000, Pope John Paul II arrived in Israel for a historic five-day pilgrimage. During his stay, the pope visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, and other cities, and talked about the need for peace, blessed Israel, and apologized for sins committed by Christians against Jews.
Jun 2, 2024 · It was the 10th anniversary of John Paul II’s canonisation, so it was also unnerving to realise that a full decennium had gone by since the man whose biography I had written was raised to the glory of the altars in company with Pope John XXIII.
Jun 2, 2024 · One of the great Popes in the Church’s history, Pope St John Paul II, was a eucharistic Pope. In his wonderful magisterial teaching as well as his holy example were all drawn and led to a great love and appreciation of Jesus as present in the Holy Eucharist.
