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Hace 3 días · Forty years ago, on Dec. 13, 1981, late night, darkness overcame Poland, the homeland of Pope John Paul II and the only country in the Soviet bloc where the communist war on religion had not only failed but backfired.
Hace 5 días · On March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul II sought to finally accomplish what Our Lady of Fatima had requested seven decades earlier. He set out to consecrate communist Russia to her Immaculate Heart, the promised step to turning the Soviet state away from its wicked ways.
Hace 4 días · Karol Józef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was ...
Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 3 días · The Catholic Case Against Communism COMMENTARY: What Karl Marx said about Christians, Jews and Blacks underscores the radical divide between communist ideology and Catholic doctrine. By Paul Kengor
Hace 4 días · John Paul II, Message of 7 December 1995, to an International Conference on Secularism and Religious Freedom sponsored by the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom and held at the Pontifical Athenaeum “Regina Apostolorum.”. The text, signed by the Pope himself, is in L’Osservatore Romano (20/27 December 1995), 4 and 7. 12.
Hace 5 días · Map of the year each country achieved independence.. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholars of decolonization focus especially on independence movements in the colonies and the collapse of global colonial ...
