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  Pope John Paul I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Paul was the first pope to admit that the prospect of the papacy had daunted him to the point that other cardinals had to encourage him to accept it.
John Paul I intended to prepare an encyclical in order to confirm the lines of the Second Vatican Council ("an extraordinary long-range historical event and of growth for the Church", he said) and to enforce the Church's discipline in the life of priests and the faithful.
Pope John Paul was accused of being unable to handle the endless supply of documentation that was sent to him by Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot, the Cardinal Secretary of State.
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 Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Paul II was succeeded by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who had led the Funeral Mass for John Paul II.
John Paul II was interred in the grottoes under the basilica, the Tomb of the Popes.
John Paul II was a considered a conservative on doctrine and issues relating to reproduction and the ordination of women.
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 John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
John Paul II emerged from the heart of the Church and the priesthood, and he cannot be understood apart from that.
John Paul II is not the emblematic figure of the twentieth century simply because his teachings and witness, which have had such a demonstrable impact on the history of our times, will be institutionally extended into the future, unlike the teachings of Churchill, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, FDR, or Reagan.
John Paul II’s "theology of the body," which he laid out in 130 general audience addresses between 1979 and 1984, is arguably the most creative Christian response to the sexual revolution and its "pulverization" of the human person to be articulated in the twentieth century.
www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9912/articles/weigel.html   (3713 words)

  
 John Paul I
John Paul I was pope for barely a month before he died.
John Paul immediately began planning out reforms he perceived that the church needed, including revisions to the long-standing absolute ban on contraceptives and fertility treatments.
The offical story was that John Paul had died of a heart attack, but no autopsy was performed and the pope was embalmed before anyone could raise a question.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/popes/john_paul_i   (949 words)

  
 National Catholic Reporter: Obituary of Pope John Paul II
John Paul II was a stunningly successful historical actor; biographer Jonathan Kwitny once called him “the man of the century.” In an age in which institutional religion was supposed to be sliding toward extinction, he applied the force of his enormous personality to revitalizing it.
John Paul remained anti-American on questions of war and peace, critical of the U.S. role as global arms salesman, and was appalled at what Americans do with their wealth.
Whatever may be said publicly, John Paul II did not endear himself to some of his brother bishops, either in the exercise of “collegiality” or in the way in which he permitted some Vatican Congregations in particular, and the Roman curia in general, to deal with them.
www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /update/conclave/jp_obit_main.htm   (8800 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Pope John Paul II
In 1976 he was invited by Pope Paul VI to preach the lenten sermons to the members of the Papal Household.
John Paul II is the most traveled pope in history, having visited nearly every country in the world which would receive him.
In the summer of 1995, Pope John Paul II began a lengthy catechisis on the Blessed Virgin Mary during his weekly Angelus addresses, culminating on 25 October 1995, with his instruction on Our Lady's active participation in the Sacrifice of Calvary.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0264.htm   (1648 words)

  
 John Paul Jones - Biography of John Paul Jones, a naval legend
JOHN PAUL JONES, the popular naval hero of the Revolution, the son of John Paul, a gardener in Scotland, was born July 6, 1747, at a cottage on the estate of his father's employer, Mr.
Paul's first adventure--the appendix of Jones was an after-thought of his career--was in the service of Mr.
John Paul Jones was one of nature's self-made men; that is, nature gave the genius, and he supplied the industry, for he knew how to labor, and must have often exerted himself to secure the attainments which he possessed.
www.2020site.org /pauljones   (417 words)

  
 FAQ: John Paul Jones, 250th anniversary of his birth
John Paul Jones not only had a brilliant naval career, he also wrote in detail throughout his life to promote professional naval standards, training and protocol.
During the nineteenth century, John Paul Jones was idolized by popular writers and extravagantly praised as a man of action.
The site of the burial of John Paul Jones was rediscovered by Ambassador Horace Porter in 1905, and American warships brought Jones' body to America to be interred in the Chapel of the Navy Academy.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq58-1.htm   (1695 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | WORLD > Pope John Paul I was ‘assassinated’–author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
LISBON: Pope John Paul I, who died from an apparent heart attack just 33 days after becoming pontiff in 1978, was in fact assassinated over his plans to radically reform the Catholic Church, a novel to be published worldwide next year charges.
The novel expounds the theory that John Paul I had become a threat because he was aware of money laundering involving the Vatican Bank as well as due to his plans to liberalize some aspects of centuries-old Church doctrine.
John Paul I wanted to redistribute the riches of the Church, open the Church to women and authorize the use of contraceptives,” Rocha told AFP in an interview.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/dec/19/yehey/world/20051219wor3.html   (284 words)

  
 frontline: john paul II - the millennial pope | PBS
FRONTLINE's "Pope John Paul II-The Millennial Pope," a bold and innovative new biography on this controversial world leader, is a journey through the 20th century to the sources of John Paul II's character and beliefs and the passionate reaction to him.
In the two decades John Paul II has commanded the world stage, re-invigorating the Catholic Church in much of the world, he has defined himself by his opposition to many of the dominant secular ideologies and passions of our time: communism, feminism, capitalism and consumerism.
Their stories are evocative of major themes in the Pope's life: the shaping influence of his youth in Poland, his remarkable relationship with Jews, his part in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, his battle with liberation theology, his repudiation of the ordination of women, and his relentless exhortation to faith.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope   (335 words)

  
 John Paul Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
John Paul Jones was born on July 6, 1747, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.
He was the son of a Scottish gardener and was originally named John Paul.
He was buried in Paris, but in 1905 his remains were removed from his long-forgotton grave and brought to the United States where, in 1913, they were finally interred in the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel at Anapolis, Maryland.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/3020/jones.html   (573 words)

  
 MAN OF 1994: Pope John Paul II
John Paul's dissatisfaction with some of the church's traditional priestly operatives - like the Jesuits, whom he perceived until recently as becoming too liberal - has led him to encourage lay Catholic movements such as Opus Dei.
John Paul likes to spend his vacations hiking with the Rev. Father Tadeusz Styczen (pronounced Stee-chen), the Polish philosopher who succeeded to Wojtyla's chair at the University of Lublin and plays a key role in the shaping of his encyclicals.
Paul in I Corinthians declares, "Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!" Despite his belief in the redemptive power of human suffering, John Paul feels deep personal anguish at the conflicts that have devastated the peoples of Rwanda and Bosnia.
www.catholic.net /RCC/News/Time_Mag/popetime.html   (4415 words)

  
 Ther Murder of Pope John Paul I
Operation survival of the sinister mafia who had gravitated around Paul VI required that John Paul I be assassinated, that this be travestied as a natural death via the extreme hypothesis of the suicide of a poor incompetent pope, and that afterwards an acceptable successor be elected.
John Paul II in particular for Solidarnosc, despite the recriminations of the pro-Soviet Secretary of State, Casaroli.
There is every reason to think that John Paul I would have been another St Pius X in the storm of a new modernism, had not the Second Vatican Council gravely disturbed him and “side-tracked” his mind which hitherto had been straight and firm.
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 JOHN PAUL I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The family, like those of Pius X and John XXIII, was always poor, and Albino knew from personal experience the hardships suffered by the modern urban proletariat.
In December 1958 John XXIII made him Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, near Venice, and as a special mark of friendship consecrated him himself in St. Peter's in Rome.
Paul VI made him Patriarch of Venice in December 1969, and Cardinal in March 1973.
www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp261.htm   (498 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
The death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978, shocked a world that had barely been introduced to “the Smiling Pope.” His reign of 33 days had been one of the shortest in the annals of the papacy.
John Paul initially lived up to expectations by refusing to be crowned with the papal tiara or to be carried in the gestatorial chair.
Cornwell cites witnesses as diverse as John Paul’s longtime housekeeper and Leon-Joseph Cardinal Suenens on John Paul’s self-doubts.
www.crisismagazine.com /julaug2003/miesel.htm   (3991 words)

  
 News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | POPE JOHN PAUL II
All the procedures outlined in the apostolic Constitution ‘Universi Dominici Gregis’ that was written by John Paul II on Feb. 22, 1996, have been put in motion," the official Vatican statement said.
John Paul asked aides to read him the liturgy of the Third Hour: the biblical passage describing the path that Christ took to his Crucifixion.
He has taken on an increasingly visible role since John Paul was hospitalized with the flu and breathing problems in February.
www.news8austin.com /content/pope_john_paul_ii   (663 words)

  
 CNN.com - John Paul on sainthood fast track - May 13, 2005
John Paul II died at the age of 84 on April 2.
Benedict's decision means that John Paul, who died on April 2, could be beatified and thus declared a "blessed of the Church" within a few years if a miracle can be attributed to him.
After the death of John Paul at the age of 84, there were calls from many for his sainthood.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/05/13/pope.sainthood   (308 words)

  
 The Papacy - Pope John Paul II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
From the start, Pope John Paul II has labored to keep the Church faithful to its tradition and to the teaching and spirit of Vatican Council II, while positioning it to meet the challenges of the third millennium.
Published in 1992 by authorization of John Paul II (the original was in French, with the English translation appearing in 1994 and the authoritative Latin editio typica in 1997), this first catechism for the universal Church in four centuries is crucial to the hoped-for renewal of catechesis.
Women’s Concerns: Pope John Paul’s insistence that, in fidelity to the will of Christ, the Church is unable to ordain women as priests has put him at odds with some feminists, as has his opposition to abortion and contraception.
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 U.S. Navy - John Paul Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
John Paul was born at Arbigland, Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, 6 July 1747.
After several successful years as a merchant skipper in the West Indies trade, John Paul emigrated to the British colonies in North America and there added "Jones" to his name.
On 26 January 1913, the remains of John Paul Jones were laid to rest in the crypt of the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Md. Today, a Marine honor guard stands duty whenever the crypt is open to the public.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/traditions/html/jpjones.html   (612 words)

  
 Ther Murder of Pope John Paul I
He proves the assassination by poisoning, previously suspected although none of the details were known, of Pope John Paul I during the night of 28 to 29 September 1978, after a reign of thirty-three days on the throne of Saint Peter.
His attempt to do so was based on ideas taken from chance encounters with theologians and historians; he inserted John Paul I into his own, David Yallop’s, mental framework, which is that of the leftist, who sees everything with the aid of his marxist analysis, the universal key to understanding.
Sixteen hours after his strange death, John Paul I was no more than a memory in that very place where, the day before, he was still reigning as the holy and beloved common Father.
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 John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (1747–1792), American Revolutionary War naval hero, often called the “Father of the American Navy,” was born in Kirkbean, Kirkcudbright county, Scotland, on July 6, 1747.
Named John Paul, he inherited from his parents, John Paul, Sr., and Jean McDuff, the independence of the Scottish Lowlander and the fighting instincts of the Highlander.
In the end, John Paul Jones's legacy rests not so much on what he accomplished as on how he did it.
www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/JONES.HTM   (2150 words)

  
 John Paul II
It provides a kind of outline of John Paul’s life, points of which can be verified and amplified with the help of Accattoli’s bio, Man of the Millennium.
The complete text in English of the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis by John Paul II is indispensable for those who want their reporting to reflect all the recent changes in process and procedure in papal funerals and conclaves.
John Paul II based his own regulations on the changes Pope Paul VI initiated in this apostolic constitution.
www.daughtersofstpaul.com /johnpaulpapacy/resources   (822 words)

  
 John Paul I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He was present at the Second Vatican Council (see Vatican Council, Second) and vowed during his papacy to put its mandates into effect.
John Paul I eliminated the traditional, elaborate papal coronation, opting for a simpler ceremony.
He died one month after becoming pope and was succeeded by John Paul II.
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 Garry Wills, Meet Pope John Paul I
Yet, the more I studied, the more convinced I became that Albino Luciani's entire life was a preparation for those brief 33 days as Pope John Paul I. He had been nurtured in poverty, and never forgot what that was like.
It had been sold without their knowledge, through Bishop Marcinkus to the benefit of all concerned but the priests and poor of the diocese of Venice.
Pope John Paul I carried his spirit of poverty and humility straight to the halls of the Vatican.
www.takingfive.com /popejohnpaul.htm   (515 words)

  
 The murder of Pope John Paul I
According to Dr. Buzzonati, Pope John Paul I's cause of death was a heart attack.
“John Paul’s brother Edoardo, in Australia on a trade mission, reported that the Pope had been given a clean bill of health after a medical examination three weeks ago.
Prior to Pope John Paul I's murder, Our Lady's message of September 13, 1978 warned that there was a "foul plot" against the Holy Father, and that the world would "soon understand" what She meant.
www.tldm.org /news3/johnpaulI.htm   (1980 words)

  
 Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
Visitors are "eyewitnesses" to history as they follow in the footsteps of John Paul II from his childhood in Poland, through World War II, and his work to improve inter-faith relations as Pope.
In honor of Pope John Paul II on the anniversary of the late pontiff's election to the papacy, this extraordinary collection of features papal images by the foremost portrait artists from the Renaissance to today.
The legacy of Pope John Paul II will be celebrated at a gala international event to be held under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (pictured below) on November 16, 2005.
www.jp2cc.org   (823 words)

  
 CBS News | Embalmers Await Call From Vatican | April 5, 2005 17:30:08
The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the Signoracci family, which was called to preserve the remains of the three popes before John Paul II.
John Paul died Saturday evening at 84, and his remains were on display Sunday morning for officials of the Roman Curia, authorities and the diplomatic corps.
The Signoracci clan embalmed the remains of Popes John XXIII in 1963, and in 1978, Paul VI and John Paul I, who preceded John Paul II.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/04/03/world/main685114.shtml   (514 words)

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