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| | John Paul II |
 | | John Paul's potent mixture of religion and politics, and its deep roots in Poland, became evident in the first year of his pontificate and was dramatized for the world in his first four trips abroad. |
 | | John Paul's supporters, both in the clergy and among the laity, insisted that because he has based his activism firmly in nonviolence and the sacred inviolability of the individual, his campaigns have only helped the church by showing that its essential values, advanced with commitment and courage, can improve the world. |
 | | By the time of John Paul II's death, his pontificate, among the longest in papal history, was generally recognized to have improved the global prestige of the papacy and of Catholicism, and thus possibly to have laid a foundation for future revival within his church. |
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