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| THE EARLY YEARS: AN UNHAPPY CHILDHOOD |
| N/A | 2005-04-15 18:38:00 |
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Before he became the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Sovereign of Vatican City and the only pope featured in a comic book -- Marvel doing the honor in 1983 -- Pope John Paul II was Karol Jozef Wojtyla..[more]
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| NOT A HAPPY CHILDHOOD |
| N/A | 2005-04-15 18:57:00 |
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As a schoolboy, Wojtyla was both an excellent student and an athlete who skied, hiked, kayaked and swam in the Skawa River. But death hovered over the family, making itself felt first when an infant sister died before Lolek was born..[more]
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| POETRY, RELIGION AND THEATER |
| N/A | 2005-04-15 19:02:00 |
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Wojtyla's passions in those early years were poetry, religion and the theater. After graduating from secondary school in 1938, he and his father moved to Krakow where he enrolled at Jagiellonian University to study literature and philosophy..[more]
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| THE PRIESTHOOD YEARS: REBEL WITH A CAUSE |
| N/A | 2005-04-15 19:06:00 |
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In the early years of his priesthood, Wojtyla served as a chaplain to university students at St. Florian's Church in Krakow. The church was conveniently located next to Jagiellonian University, where he was working on a second doctorate in philosophy..[more]
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| A GENIAL AND CHARMING COMPANION |
| N/A | 2005-04-16 09:12:00 |
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Wojtyla is, by all accounts, a genial andcharming companion, a good listener and not above what Time calls''good-natured kidding.''.[more]
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| LEARNED AND SCHOLARLY |
| N/A | 2005-04-16 09:57:00 |
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In spite of all his activities, Wojtyladidn't slight his scholarly duties.He wrote a treatise in 1960 called ‘‘Loveand Responsibility’‘ that laid out the foundation for what Weigel calls ‘‘amodern Catholic sexual ethic.’‘.[more]
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| AN EMOTIONAL MAN |
| N/A | 2005-04-16 10:27:00 |
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Although he had established himself as aformidable intellectual presence -- as well as an able administrator andfund-raiser -- few suspected that the Sacred College of Cardinals would chooseWojtyla as the next pope after the death of John Paul I in September of 1978..[more]
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| THE PAPAL YEARS: CHARISMA AND RESTORATION |
| N/A | 2005-04-16 10:35:00 |
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Less than eight months after his 1978 inauguration,Karol Wojtyla returned to Poland as Pope John Paul II for nine cathartic days..[more]
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| THE WORLD IS HIS BUSINESS |
| CNN | 2005-04-16 10:54:00 |
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Not content with tending merely to church affairs, John Paul has made the world's business his business -- especially in regard to human rights..[more]
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| 'A CULTURE OF DEATH' |
| N/A | 2005-04-16 11:07:00 |
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The Catholic church John Paul II inherited in 1978 was in shambles. Reforms begun by the Vatican Council II shook the church to its foundation, and the tumult within the church could be compared to the turmoil in the outer world during the 1960s' era of peace, love and protests over the war in Vietnam..[more]
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| 'A MAN OF INTEGRITY AND PRAYER' |
| CNN | 2005-04-16 11:17:00 |
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There was more to it than forgetfulness, for John Paul has displayed that charisma during more than 170 visits to over 115 countries over the past 20 years. And as Time noted in naming him Man of the Year in 1994, he generates an electricity "unmatched by anyone else on earth.".[more]
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| GOSPEL OF LIFE (EVANGELIUM VITAE) |
| John Paul II | 2005-04-23 13:11:00 |
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Another book by pope John Paul II..[more]
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