Pope John Paul II: Directed by Herbert Wise. With Albert Finney, Michael Crompton, Robert Austin, Caroline Bliss. Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland, to his rise and installa
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...
TheSolidarno social movement was strongly influenced by the spiritual and ethicalmessage of Pope John Paul II, delivered during his first visit in Poland, at themiddle of 1979.Tămaş,Gina Liana
As John Paul II points out in Salvifici Doloris, “Nevertheless what we express by the word “suffering” seems to be particularly essential to the nature of man. It is as deep as man himself, precisely because it manifests in its own way that depth which is proper to man, and in ...
from previous Pope Benedict XVI describing Muhammad as “evil and inhuman”...a statement that created outrage within the Islamic community, and which might “serve to destroy in 20 seconds the careful construction of a relationship with Islam that Pope John Paul II built over the last 20 ...
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John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) - The man who called Vatican II and claimed to be pope from 1958-1963 Let’s examine some of the facts about Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII). Angelo Roncalli was born in 1881 and held diplomatic posts in Bulgaria, Turkey and France. Roncalli was also “Patriarch...
Byline: By GILL SMITH EXCLUSIVENEW Pope Benedict XVI has gone potty over Harry Potter - condemning the boy wizard as a "product of evil".Unlike predecessor John Paul II, who praised author JK Rowling for living her life like a Christian, the hardline German Pontiff believes her books are ...
As John Paul II's health declined, Ratzinger took on a more important role at the Vatican and in 2002, he became dean of the College of Cardinals. As dean, he had an important role in the period between the death of John Paul II and the election of the new pope, which included summ...
Pope John Paul II is defying the solemn Words of Jesus Christ when he gives credence and validity to the Pagan religion of Shiva. The Pope is denying, by his actions, that Christianity is the only real religion on Earth. But he is doing much more: he is defying the commandment of God...