These popes have since customarily been renumbered XV to XIX, but John XXI and John XXII continue to bear numbers that they themselves formally adopted on the assumption that there had indeed been 20 Johns before them. In current numbering there thus exists no pope by the name of John XX...
Pope John Paul II, Biography In the history of the Catholic Church there have been but a few great popes who have made a change in history, Pope John Paul II is one of them. When he was young the Nazis occupied his home country, Poland. But despite this he managed to be ordain and...
In October of 1999, 1,650Wiccans,Druids, and other Pagans from around the world signed a letter to Pope John Paul II. The letter requested that Pagan peoples be included in the Vatican's Millenium Apology for the persecutions of the Inquisition, addressed to Muslims, Jews, Christians, and...
The very first contrast that The Two Popes draws between its title characters, at the 2005 papal conclave after the death of Pope St. John Paul II, is the proposition that Cardinal Bergoglio, who does not want to be pope, is therefore worthy of the office, while Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,...
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...
but his unfamiliarity with the device leads the airline representative to think that it is a prank call and hangs up on him. We then flashback to 2005 and the death of Pope John Paul II, a beloved figure in the church for 26 years, followed by the accession of John Ratzinger as Pope...
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 Cu...
John Paul II Was The Real Pope During The Pope's Exorcist's 1987 Timeline As it turns out, the beloved Pope John Paul II was the Pope at the time of the events of The Pope's Exorcist. Unless a viewer had a great grasp of papal history while watching the movie, they're to be ...
Pope John XXIII died in the spring of 1963. Vatican II had been convened in 1962. He never lived to see the results of what he had started. Pope John XXIII was succeeded by Pope Paul VI. Pope Paul ably continued steering the course that his predecessor had begun despite being bitterly ...