Pope John Paul II. Writer: La bottega dell'orefice. Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was elected pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was calle
5A confusion in the numbering of popes named John after John XIV (reigned 983–984) resulted because some 11th-century historians mistakenly believed that there had been a pope named John between antipope Boniface VII and the true John XV (reigned 985–996). Therefore they mistakenly numbered...
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In 1939, about one year after John Paul enrolled in The Krawkow Jaggelonian University, the Nazi closed …show more content… Pope John Paul II like any other religious authority was an opponent of war and denounced it on any such chance he could. During the time period of his reign ...
John Paul II opposed communism. Growing up in Poland, he experienced the repression of the Nazis and, later, the Commies. His clandestine support of the Solidarity movement (Poland's first independent labor union) certainly contributed to the downfall of the Soviet state. Shortly after his papal...
My dear friends, the agony of our dear Pope John Paul II has come to an end this evening. The doors of Paradise have opened for him after so many years of illness, during which he coped with great dignity and equally great courage with the effects of...
John Ortberg poses the most profound question ever asked, “Who was this man?”, while offering fact after fact of his universal imprint two thousand years later. Leaving no room for argument, regardless of one’s position of belief, his statements prove that no other person in history has ...
Francis becomes only the second pope to visit Papua New Guinea, after St. John Paul II touched down in 1984 during one of his lengthy, globetrotting voyages. Then, John Paul paid tribute to the Catholic missionaries who had already been trying for a c...
But this official report, which was supported by the vast majority of the Commission, was rejected by Pope Paul VI after he had been advised by a few dissenters that such a change would threaten the Church’s claim to infallible teaching. The reaffirmation of the anti-birth control teachings...
After the music, the Pope was handed two typewritten pages by the Cardinal to his right. A microphone was placed in front of him, and he read them. He held the paper with a trembling hand: his Parkinson’s disease was most evident at this moment. With my poor Italian (I took two ye...