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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.
In February 2005 John Paul II was taken to the hospital with an inflammation of the larynx, the result of influenza.
John Paul II was a conservative on doctrine and issues relating to reproduction and the ordination of women.
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 John Paul II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As pope, John Paul II continued to implement the decisions of Vatican II and placed special emphasis on Marian devotion.
John Paul pursued ecumenism (primarily with the Anglican Communion and Orthodox churches), although he was unsuccessful in arranging a visit to Russia, and took various steps to improve relations with Jews, including Vatican recognition of Israel and acknowledgment of Catholic failures in responding to the Holocaust.
A charismatic, forceful, and multilingual man whose own faith was marked by deep piety and mysticism, John Paul II humanized the papacy and managed to connect personally with the many thousands that gathered whenever he visited a foreign land.
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 Pope John Paul II -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Also in 1999, John Paul II made another of his multiple trips to the United States, this time celebrating mass in (The largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century) St.
John Paul II became the first Pope to visit (A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil) Greece in 1291 years.
John Paul II was a conservative on (A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school) doctrine and issues relating to reproduction and the (The act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders) ordination of women.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/pope_john_paul_ii1.htm   (5948 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.
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 Pope John Paul II - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Official image of John Paul II John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland), is the present pope.
The length of his term is in extreme contrast with that of his predecessor John Paul I, who died suddenly after only 33 days in office (and in whose memory John Paul II named himself).
At the height of his papacy, Pope John Paul II went to the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Israel and touched the holiest shrine of the Jewish people, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, in March 2000, promoting Christian-Jewish reconciliation.
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 AllRefer.com - John Paul II (Roman Catholic Popes And Antipopes) - Encyclopedia
As pope, John Paul II has continued to implement the decisions of Vatican II and has placed special emphasis on Marian devotion.
John Paul has pursued ecumenism (primarily with the Anglican Communion and Orthodox churches) and has taken various steps to improve relations with Jews, including Vatican recognition of Israel and acknowledgment of Catholic failures in responding to the Holocaust.
John Paul has issued two encyclicals (1981, 1991) on economic issues in which he praised free-market economies but criticized the inadequacies and injustices of both capitalism and Communism.
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 frontline: john paul II - the millennial pope | PBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 II
John Paul II, - John Paul II, pope, in March issued an unprecedented, comprehensive papal apology for errors the...
Pope John Paul II and the dignity of the human being.
Ethical foundations of the economy in light of the Encyclicals of Pope John Paul II.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Paul II
He then considered Mark, after the apostle, but since that was the battle cry of the army of Venice, the cardinals convinced him that it would have political overtones.
This put him at odds with the cardinals, as did his suppression of the college of abbreviators, a problem that lasted through the rest of his papacy, led to slanderous "biographies", and rumours of a life of immorality.
To improve civil life in general, Paul started several carnivals and public feasts, sent forces throughout the Papal States to suppress thieves and robber barons, and revised the civil law of Rome.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0211.htm   (320 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.
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 john paul II shot
Pope John Paul II meets with his would-be assassin, Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, in Agca's prison cell in Rome.
On May 17, John Paul II recites the Angelus at Gemelli hospital: "Pray for the brother who shot me, whom I have sincerely forgiven".
On July 15, 1992, John Paul II undergoes surgery to remove a benign intestinal tumor.
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 Pope John Paul II's Pontificate
May 29 Joint statement of John Paul II and the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie, at the end of the ecumenical celebration in the Anglican Canterbury Cathedral.
8 Meeting of John Paul II and members of the Roman Curia with the metropolitan archbishops of the United States of America on the theme: "Evangelization in the Context of the Culture and Society of the United States with particular emphasis on the Role of the Bishop as Teacher of the Faith" (March 8-11).
7 John Paul II officially presents the Catechism of the Catholic Church to representatives from the Roman Curia and to the presidents of doctrinal and catechetical commissions of episcopal conferences.
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 MAN OF 1994: Pope John Paul II
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.
He dreams of having a summit of all monotheistic religions at Mount Sinai and of concelebrating a Mass with Patriarch Aleksey II of Moscow to mark the reconciliation of Roman Catholicism with Russian Orthodoxy.
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)

  
 INTERNATIONAL CHARITY FOUNDATION - Paul - II
As a citizen of Tarsus Paul was a citizen of the
Paul would seize upon the Roman empire as a fit symbol of the kingdom of heaven.
and it was not all unconscious or subliminal as Rostron argues (Christology of Paul, 17).
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 Pope John Paul II Biography Life 100 Top Links JOHN PAUL II Papal Papacy
Born Karol Joseph Wojtyla (Voy-tee-wah) in Wadowice, Poland, Pope John Paul II is the first Slav to head the Roman Catholic Church, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, the youngest pope in a century, and the first since Pius II in the 15th century to be a man of letters.
Centessimus Annus, John Paul II, On the Hundredth Anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," 1991 Christifideles Laici, John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World December 30, 1988 Christmas Message to Children, Pope John Paul II, December 15, 1994.
There is mounting evidence that Pope John Paul II may declare Mary the Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate of humanity as an official Catholic dogma (article of faith) in the very...
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Paul II
That Paul II was not opposed to Humanistic studies, as such, is evidenced by the fact that he protected universities, encouraged the art of printing, and was himself a collector of works of ancient art.
On the other hand the charge of immorality brought against Paul II by Gregory of Heimburg is untenable.
No general results were obtained, however, owing to the lack of co-operation among the Christian powers; to disturbances in the Papal States, where Paul II suppressed the robber knights of Anguillara, and perhaps chiefly to the conflict between the papacy and King George Podiebrad of Bohemia.
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 Pope John Paul II
Paul VI pointed out some of the consequences of separating the unitive aspect of conjugal love from its procreative dimension: a gradual weakening of moral discipline; a trivialization of human sexuality; the demeaning of women; marital infidelity, often leading to broken families; state-sponsored programs of population control based on imposed contraception and sterilization.
He said that as bishops they must "find the right language and imagery to present" the Church's teaching on life, married love and the dignity of women "in a comprehensible and compelling way." John Paul II highlighted the "urgency of the pro-life task" since abortion was legalized in America in 1973.
In concluding remarks, Pope John Paul told the bishops that "an essential feature of support for the inalienable right to life, from conception to natural death, is the effort to provide legal protection for the unborn, the handicapped, the elderly, and those suffering from terminal illness.
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 Amazon.com: Books: John Paul II: A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Paul II: A Light for the World--Essays and Reflections on the Papacy of John Paul II by Mary Ann Walsh
John Paul II is a publishing indusrty unto himself, Either his own dense,sometimes obtuse tomes or the cottage industry of mostly fawning books about his pontificate.
I once dreamt that I was sitting in the Vatican gardens at a picnic table with pope John Paul II over a coke and sandwich, and we were having an intimate conversation.
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 Pope John Paul II
Created for the occasion of his twenty-fifth anniversary as Pope, John Paul II: A Light for the World provides a celebration in photographs and words of the courageous pastor who guides more than one billion Catholics and has made his mark on history the world over.
Elegantly designed and produced, John Paul II: A Light for the World features over 140 photographs--many of which seldom have been seen outside the Vatican--by official Vatican photographers who have captured the Pope's remarkable life and ministry for two and a half decades.
The text is written by Pope John Paul II for the Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross) journey which he made to the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on Good Friday, April 21, 2000.
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 The "unofficial" Pope John Paul II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pope John Paul II (1920-) is said to be the most recognized person in the world.
He is the most traveled Pope in the 2,000 year history of the Church and speaks eight languages.
Born in Wadowice, Poland on May 18, to an administrative officer in the Polish army and a former schoolteacher.
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 Vatican John Paul II (Pope 1978-2005) News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Last weekend, on the 27th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul II, the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington unveiled its newest exhibit, Papi...
At the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April, Khatami was seated close to the Israeli president, Moshe Katsav, who...
Congress will mark the conclusion of the Year of the Eucharist as proclaimed by Pope John Paul II in October 2004, and is dedicated to the memory of the late pontiff.
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 Amazon.com: Pope John Paul II (1984) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pope John Paul II: The Conscience of the World celebrates the Pope's 20th anniversary as the world's most compassionate leader by documenting his life, his actions, and his worship.
Many people today think of John Paul II as some sort of well-intentioned preachy old-timer set in his church's archaic ways, with little, if nothing, relevant to say in our present troubled times.
Albert Finney is astounding in the role of a Polish working class priest witnessing first hand the worst atrocities of the XX century, and putting his own life on the line in order to stop and ammend them.
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 Pope John Paul II: A Lifetime of Service
It is said that he was the most recognized man in the world and he is by far the most widely travelled pope in history.
One of the most beloved popes in history among Catholics and non-Catholics alike, John Paul captured the world’s attention and admiration during his 26-year pontificate.
Pope John Paul II on Terrorism and Sept. 11
www.americancatholic.org /Features/johnpaulii   (560 words)

  
 TIME 100: Pope John Paul II
TIME 100: Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II waves to pilgrims in September 1989
In November 1989 word went out that Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, would stop in Rome en route to a summit meeting with President George Bush.
In Rome he would have an audience with Pope John Paul II.
www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/popejohn.html   (232 words)

  
 FIRST THINGS Collection: Pope John Paul II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Paul II and the Truth About Freedom by Avery Dulles
Documentation: Theories of Evolution by John Paul II
The Liberalism of John Paul II by Richard John Neuhaus
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 Pope John Paul II - Angelus/Regina Coeli & Weekly General Audiences
Pope John Paul II - Angelus/Regina Coeli & Weekly General Audiences
John Paul II- Psalms and Canticles of the Liturgy of the Hours
Vatican II Called Catholics to Active Role in Ecumenism - 01/21/96
www.cin.org /pope.html   (1095 words)

  
 The Pope Page
Catholic.net and RegnumChristi.org would like to offer our Holy Father Pope John Paul II a beautiful Christmas present this year.
As you all know on October 16th the Holy Father celebrated his 25th anniversary as the Vicar of Christ on earth.
Left to right: Thomas Terry, Director of Computing Services, NJIT; Roman Anderson, CICI Project Leader; James Mulholland and Pope John Paul II.
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 BBC NEWS | Europe | Frail Pope blesses Easter crowds
The Pope appeared distressed as he struggled to speak
Pope John Paul II has appeared at his Vatican window to bless crowds gathered in Rome for Easter.
The 84-year-old Roman Catholic leader, who had throat surgery last month, looked frail and in discomfort as he tried to utter a few words.
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