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Hace 4 días · 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.
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Hace 4 días · Days before Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, Vatican television cameras captured extraordinary footage of the Polish pope. He was sitting alone facing the altar of his private chapel. Beneath the crucifix and tabernacle was a television screen showing a torchlit procession at Rome’s Colosseum.
Hace 4 días · 1. Three years after being elected pope, he said on the feast of Christ the King: Right from the beginning of my ministry in St. Peter’s See in Rome, I considered this message my special task. Providence has assigned it to me in the present situation of man, the Church and the world.
Hace 4 días · More than any other pope since the early centuries of the Church, John Paul had lived with martyrs and counted martyrs among his friends. For his golden jubilee in 1996, there was a massive celebration in Rome, a great celebration of the priesthood.
Hace 4 días · St. John Paul II - Papal Legacy, Catholic Church, World Leader: In travels during the next 10 years, John Paul preached to the world his messages of religious freedom, national independence, and human rights.
Hace 5 días · John Paul II and Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) literally beat up on gay men, while promoting self-loathing, closeted and homophobic homosexuals up the greasy poll of the hierarchy.
Hace 4 días · In Veritatis splendor John Paul II traces many of the recent deviations in moral theology to the denial of the dependence of freedom on truth. Authentic freedom, he says, “is never freedom ‘from’ the truth but always freedom ‘in’ the truth” (VS 64).
