Tag: Pope St John Paul II
St John Paul II hailed as model for Catholics to fight...
St John Paul II's example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, especially in the wake of the 7 October, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people, according to a theologian and papal biographer George Weigel.
Like St John Paul II, pope shows untiring will to serve,...
Like St John Paul II, Pope Francis knows the "cross of Christ is never abandoned" and that everything is in God's hands, said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was the late pope's personal secretary for 39 years.
Pope encourages Catholics to get to know St John Paul II...
Calling St John Paul II "one of the men who most shaped the last century," Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to get to know him better, especially through what he did and wrote before being elected pope 16 October 1978.
The Catholic Difference: Aroused consciences changing history
In Professor Gaddis’s words, John Paul II was one of those “visionaries” who, as “saboteurs of the status quo,” were able to “widen the range of historical possibility.” Are there such visionaries among us today?
10 years of St John Paul II
The Vatican will celebrate the historic tenth anniversary of the canonisation of John Paul II on 27 April at St Peter's Basilica.
George Weigel: Christ-centred questions for Synod 2023
The first session of the “Synod on Synodality,” currently meeting in Rome, is slated to be followed by a second such month-long affair in October 2024.
1200 attend new JPII shrine ceremony
More than a thousand people gathered at St Patrick’s Church, East Gosford last Saturday to celebrate the inauguration of a Shrine to St John...
St John Paul II: Someone the Church really needed
In looking upon John Paul II as a kind of hero, and acknowledging his personal holiness, we must not lose sight of his humanity, his struggles, his suffering
The Plenary, Catholic doctrine and ‘Catholics for Renewal’
The Plenary Council 2020/21 is an opportunity for the Catholic Church in Australia to refocus on its primary mission which is that of evangelisation....
