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May 25, 2024 · 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...
May 28, 2024 · Saint John Paul II was bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and the first from a Slavic country. His pontificate of more than 26 years was the third longest in history. He was canonized in 2014.
- John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. He travelled abroad extensively in an effort to promote greater understanding between cou...
- John Paul II’s private conversations with Polish and Soviet leaders contributed to the peaceful end of the Soviet regime in eastern Europe, and his...
- John Paul II was the first globally oriented pope, and he increased the global prestige of the papacy. His emphasis on religious and national freed...
5 days ago · In his first encyclical John Paul II protested against the denial of religious freedom to individuals and communities under totalitarian regimes of the day (RH 17). In his address to the United Nations General Assembly in 1979 he quoted the passage from Dignitatis humanae 3 cited above.
May 24, 2024 · No less than Pope John Paul II has reaffirmed much of Humanae Vitae in his Encyclical Veritatis Splendor and his Theology of the Body clarifying at the same time the use of individual...
6 days ago · As Saint Pope John Paul II has written in his 1986 encyclical Dominum et Vivificantem: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, then, is the sin committed by the person who claims to have a “right” to persist in evil—in any sin at all—and who thus rejects Redemption. A radical refusal to be converted.
May 19, 2024 · John Paul II was a scholar who promulgated the Catechism of the Catholic Church in 1992, reformed the Eastern and Western Codes of Canon Law during his pontificate, and authored 14 encyclicals, 15 apostolic exhortations, 11 apostolic constitutions, and 45 apostolic letters.
5 days ago · In his 14th and final encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Pope St. John Paul II directed the attention of the Church back to the Eucharist. The encyclical was issued in 2003 as his health was failing
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