Yeah. Pope John Paul II actually encouraged this kind of conversation to happen. He said look, basically things worked pretty well with the papacy in the first millennium, from either an Eastern and Western per
Peter to John Paul II, but also of all their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes. It also includes an appendix which records the once generally accepted, but long since discarded, legend that at some date in the ninth, tenth,\nor eleventh century a female pope called Joan ...
the first pope to voluntarily vacate his office since Pope Gregory XII relinquished his title as a result of factionalism in the church in 1415, known to history as “The Great Western Schism.” The 85-year-old Benedict’s resignation is attributed to old age and failing health, yet may ha...
John Paul II Lived 1920 - 2005. Ruled as pope 1978 - 2005. Benedict XVI Formerly Joseph Alois Ratzinger. Bavarian Pope. Born 1927. Ruled as pope 2005 - 2013. Resigned in February 2013. Francis I Formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Born 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rules as pope since 20...
By the time St. John Paul II had ascended Peter’s throne, the United Nations was firmly established as a global arbiter, mainly through peace-keeping missions. But with new global awareness of violations of human dignity taking place on our television screens, the notion of universal “human...
Yes. Pope John Paul II visited the shrine in 1998 and placed a golden crown on the statue's head. Pope Benedict XVI made the trek in 2012 to honor the quadricentennial of the appearance of the relic. In his 2015 visit to the island, Pope Francis prayed to Cub...
(periods without a pope). The facts available on this website prove that the last six men who have claimed be popes – Francis, Benedict XVI, John Paul II, John Paul I, Paul VI and John XXIII, the men who brought in Vatican II – have been and are antipopes. We prove that they ...
The most recent interment was Pope John Paul II, on April 8, 2005. Beneath, near the crypt, is the recently discovered vaulted fourth-century “Tomb of the Julii”. Plenty of Popes are kept for display inside the crypt in St. Peter Basillica in the Vatican statehood. The corpse of ...
(soon to becomePope Francis), a Jesuit from Argentina, who had previously, back in 2005, been considered as the reformers’ choice to replace the recently deceased John Paul II. Ratzinger prevailed, however, and so off Bergoglio went, back to South America. Fast forward 8 years to...
Meanwhile, John Paul II has died, and as a cardinal, Bergoglio must return to Rome to help elect a new pope. There he encounters Ratzinger, at the time a conservative Bavarian cardinal who haughtily insists on speaking to Bergoglio in Latin when they meet in a Vatican bathroom, and who tu...