Sentences with phrase «paul ii»

Pope John Paul II is beatified — the last step before sainthood — in a May ceremony attended by more than million people in Rome.

Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God».4 The sexual intimacy of marriage, the most intimate kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing in God's own life.

Yet there remains a general ignorance in the senior management age group of what has happened in the Church in the pontificates of Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict, of the revival of faith, whetherthrough new movements or the rediscovery of the tradition of the Church.

Men can not be understood without Christ, as John Paul II never tired of pointing out, referring to the words of Gaudiumet Spes (22):

In 1995, Blessed John Paul II wrote that our culture suffers from a «hedonistic mentality unwilling to accept responsibility in matters of sexuality, and... [from] a self - centred concept of freedom, which regards procreation as an obstacle to personal fulfilment.»

In the words of Pope John Paul II: «The fear of making a permanent commitment can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - two loves existing side by side until they end in separation.

For its originator, Blessed John Paul II, it was precisely the opposite: a call to do absolutely everything differently.

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

Dalin notes thatsome of the most hostile attacks on Pius XII (James Carroll, Garry Wills, as well as John Cornwell himself) have come from vitriolic critics of John Paul II.

Since Saint Pope John Paul II, a dynamic expression has circulated among the faithful: «New Evangelisation».

You could probably find a few quotes from John Paul II to cast doubt on his faith too.

Nevertheless, the approval and backing of Pope John Paul II encouraged us.

John Paul II introduced the expression the «new evangelisation» early in his pontificate, and returned continually to the theme.

«It is very important to make as clear as possible that no tickets are needed to attend the beatification of John Paul II,» said monsignor Guido Marini, master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations, according to Vatican Radio.

Devin Rose with «Rally to Restore Unity» «Pope John Paul II's pontificate cut across denominational boundaries.

A Year of Faith begins in October, and the CTS has produced an attractive pocket - sized set of meditations by John Paul II to link with this.

What I enjoyed is how Leonard weaves into nearly every chapter, the life and works of a plethora of great saints, coining their best known catch phrases concerning evangelisation and the holy life: St Augustine, St Maximilian Kolbe, St Paul, St John Paul II.

Amidst this maelstrom rose John Paul II.

Blessed John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae is used as a key text, particularly as Short describes the Polish pope as the «greatest historian of abortion».

So too today, instead of engaging with the entirety of the twentieth century Magisterial teaching concerning artificial contraception — Pius XI, Pius XII, Paul VI, John Paul II — The Tablet focuses on Humanae Vitae and seeks to knock that down so as to knock the whole edifice of teaching in this area.

An extended, biblically based defence can be found in John Paul II's Theology of the Body (enthusiasm for this defence is very high in the United States).

This book would be a good introduction tothe story of John Paul II - but an intelligent child will ask for more.

The other that I continue to return to is Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

In his first homily as Pope, Benedict XVI summarised this vocation in Christ by drawing upon the words of his predecessor John Paul II.

Jolanta Babiuch explains part of the intellectual tradition from which Pope John Paul II emerged, the pre-War dialogue between Marxists and personalist philosophy.

Fr Balasuriya also criticises Leo XIII's Rerum Novarumand John Paul II's Centesimus Annus.

They bear a great resemblance to what Pope John Paul II called «the culture of death», with its downgrading of marriage, its advocating of euthanasia, abortion and contraception.

There, as John Paul II frequently pointed out, they learn that love is stronger than sin and death.

John Paul II 1988 [5] Pope Benedict XVI, address to the Administrators of Lazio Regions and Municipality of Rome, January 2010 [6] Letter to the Bishops of the world on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2004 [7] Ibid.

The term «fundamentalist» is now associated with people as different from one another as Pope John Paul II, Jerry Falwell and Osama bin Laden.

[13] Cf Ecclesia in Europa, John Paul II, 41.

[25] In his discourse to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, August 22,1996, John Paul II spoke of «an ontological jump» that occurs when man is considered.

(Gen 1:24) Pope Pius XII, St John Paul II and the Catechism have lent increasing support to scientific views of the origins of the human body.

[Pope Benedict 22.12.05]... Thomas» realism was able to recognise the objectivity of truth... The Church's preference for his method and his doctrine is not exclusive, but «exemplary» [Pope John Paul II, 14.9.80].

«the texts bequeathed by the Council Fathers, in the words of Blessed John Paul II, «have lost nothing of their value or brilliance.

And though Biden has ruffled the feathers of church authorities on the abortion question, he is an observant Catholic who attends church regularly and met with Pope John Paul II four times.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, as well as Pope St John Paul II, was very concerned with what the secular world sees as the opposition between faith and reason, but which the Church sees as its two wings.

Pope Saint John Paul II highlighted this.

One could see that John Paul II had stabilized the fortress Church and now, as his successor, Benedict XVI continued an internal renewal.

Blessed Pope John Paul II welcomed this demand and committed the Holy See to prepare one in his post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio of 1981.

[9] John Paul II's Laborem exercens (1981) provides a starting point, although his analysis there is limited to work, rather than integrated with consumption.

When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the two church leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican Church.

On 20th March 1993 Pope John Paul II beatified Blessed John Duns Scotus, whose cult has always been observed in Cologne, Edinburgh and Nola.

In international politics, too, Americans found in John Paul II an ally, especially in his resistance to the evil of communism.

Pope John Paul II talked about a «morally correct minimum level» for the size of a family.

John Paul II isfurther taken to task for writing «disparagingly concerning Buddhism as negative.»

When John Paul II was elected pontiff in late 1978, the American Catholic Church was reeling.

Indeed, on the 100th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope John Paul II warned us directly about the growth of state welfare.

Karol Wojtyla, later on Pope John Paul II, put it delicately in the context of marital tenderness: «Love makes it possible in married life for husband and wife to educate each other.

Fortunately, after a moment's silence, John Paul II himself burst out laughing, in appreciation of American directness.