Information on Pope John Paul II?

Question

Pope John Paul II--HELP!?

What did he to to change or help the Catholic Church?

i need specific examples(i.e. helped stop the marrage of more then 1 person or stressed the fact that jesus is part of the trinity, etc.)

i need the big things and the little things

also sites or reverences to the information that i want is greatly appreciatted

ALSO! when was he born, when he died, his origanal name, when he became Pope, waht he did befor he was Pope, and any other simple small information

Answer 1

his original name : Karol Wojtyla
born in Poland , in Wadowice 18 May 1920
died in Vatican 2 April 2005
became Pope - 16 October 1978

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_paul_II

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Answer 2

Here is John Paul II's official biography about the time before he was Pope: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_prepontificato_en.html

Here is John Paul II's official biography about the time while he was Pope: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/santopadre_biografie/giovanni_paolo_ii_biografia_pontificato_en.html

Interesting things:
+ He established World Youth Days and celebrated 19 of them.
+ He proclaimed 1,338 Blesseds
+ He canonized 482 Saints
+ He made Thérèse of the Child Jesus a Doctor of the Church
+ He wrote
. + 14 Encyclicals
. + 15 Apostolic Exhortations
. + 11 Apostolic Constitutions
. + 45 Apostolic Letters
. + 5 Books
+ He added the Luminous Mysteries to the Rosary

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

His true name was Karol Wojtyła. He was born in Wadowice in Poland 18th May 1920. his mother dies when he was a little boy. after his final exam he visited a shop where cream cake were sold :) than he sturted studying Polish filology but world war the second interrupted his studies. then he realised that he needs to help other people.
He was the first pope that were no so called "prisoner of Vaticane" but he used o travel a lot. what is more he was the first that came into Arabian temple. Howver he was also realy conservative and he did not let prists get marrien, he also was not willing to give people "church divorces". He cared a lot for tyhe peace on world. in Poland people say that he killed socialism using no gun. people also claim that after his death they were praying to him and that their wishes came true...

Answer 4

Old Johnnie was actually a good Catholic, not like the present Nazi pope.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II), (Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (help·info) (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from October 16, 1978 until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He was the first (and only) Polish Pope and the first non-Italian Pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. He is one of only four people to have been named to the Time 100 for both the 20th century and for a year in the 21st.

His early reign was marked by his opposition to communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces which contributed to its collapse in Eastern Europe.[1] In the later part of his pontificate, he was notable for speaking against consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, war, dictatorship, materialism, abortion, relativism and what he deemed the "culture of death".

During his reign, the pope traveled extensively, visiting over 100 countries, more than any of his predecessors. He remains one of the most-traveled world leaders in history. As part of his special emphasis on the universal call to holiness, he canonized a great many people. He was Pope during a period in which Catholicism's influence declined in developed countries but expanded in the Third World.

John Paul II was fluent in numerous languages: his native Polish and also Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Croatian, Portuguese, Russian and Latin.

In 1992, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. On 2 April 2005 at 9:37 p.m. local time, Pope John Paul II died in the Papal Apartments while a vast crowd kept vigil in Saint Peter's Square below. Millions of people flocked to Rome to pay their respects to the body and for his funeral. The last years of his reign had been marked by his fight against the various diseases ailing him, provoking some concerns that he should abdicate. On May 9, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI, John Paul II's successor, waived the five year waiting period for a cause for beatification to be opened.

Overview
John Paul II emphasized what he called the "universal call to holiness" and attempted to define the Catholic Church's role in the modern world. He spoke out against ideologies and politics of communism, Marxism, Socialism, feminism, imperialism, hedonism, relativism, materialism, fascism (including Nazism), racism and unrestrained capitalism. In many ways, he fought against oppression, secularism and poverty. Although he was on friendly terms with many Western heads of state and leading citizens, he reserved a special opprobrium for what he believed to be the corrosive spiritual effects of modern Western consumerism and the concomitant widespread secular and hedonistic orientation of Western populations.

John Paul II affirmed traditional Catholic teachings by opposing abortion, contraception, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, euthanasia, in vitro fertilisation (IVF), and unjust wars. He also defended traditional teachings on marriage and gender roles by opposing divorce, same-sex marriage and the ordination of women. His conservative views were sometimes criticized as regressive. John Paul II called upon followers to vote according to Catholic teachings. John Paul II became known as the "Pilgrim Pope" for traveling greater distances than had all his predecessors combined. According to John Paul II, the trips symbolized bridge-building efforts (in keeping with his title as Pontifex Maximus, literally Master Bridge-Builder) between nations and religions, attempting to remove divisions created through history.

He beatified 1,340 people, more people than any previous pope. The Vatican asserts he canonized more people than the combined tally of his predecessors during the last five centuries, and from a far greater variety of cultures.[3] Whether he had canonized more saints than all previous popes put together, as is sometimes also claimed, is difficult to prove, as the records of many early canonizations are incomplete, missing, or inaccurate. However, it is known that his abolition of the office of Promotor Fidei ("Promoter of the Faith" and the origin of the term Devil's advocate) streamlined the process.

In February, 2004 Pope John Paul II was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize honoring his life's work in opposing Communist oppression and helping to reshape the world. [4]

Pope John Paul II died on 2 April 2005 (buried 8 April 2005) after a long fight against Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. Immediately after his death, many of his followers demanded that he be elevated to sainthood as soon as possible, shouting "Santo Subito" (meaning "Saint immediately" in Italian). Both L'Osservatore Romano and Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II's successor, referred to John Paul II as "Great".

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.

Biography
Early life
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice in southern Poland. His mother, Emilia Kaczorowska, died in 1929, when he was just age nine and his father supported him so that he could study. His brother, who worked as a doctor, died when Karol was twelve. His youth was marked by extensive contacts with the then thriving Jewish community of Wadowice. He played football often, mostly as a goalkeeper.[2] [Sunday Times 2002]

Karol enrolled at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He worked as a volunteer librarian and did compulsory military training in the Academic Legion. In his youth he was an athlete, actor and playwright and he learned as many as twelve languages during his lifetime, including Latin, Ukrainian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, English, and of course his native Polish. He also had some facility with Russian.

During the Second World War academics of the Jagiellonian University were arrested and the university was suppressed. All able-bodied males had to have a job. He variously worked as a messenger for a restaurant and a manual labourer in a limestone quarry.

His father also died when Karol was 20.

Church career
In 1942 he entered the underground seminary run by the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Sapieha. Karol Wojtyła was ordained a priest on 1 October 1946, by the same bishop who confirmed him. Not long after, he was sent to study theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, where he earned a licentiate and later a doctorate in sacred theology. This doctorate, the first of two, was based on the Latin dissertation Doctrina de fide apud S. Ioannem a Cruce (The Doctrine of Faith According to Saint John of the Cross). Even though his doctoral work was unanimously approved in June of 1948, he was denied the degree because he could not afford to print the text of his dissertation (an Angelicum rule). In December of that year, a revised text of his dissertation was approved by the theological faculty of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and Wojtyła was finally awarded the degree. He earned a second doctorate, based on an evaluation of the possibility of founding a Catholic ethic on the ethical system of phenomenologist Max Scheler (An Evaluation of the Possibility of Constructing a Christian Ethics on the Basis of the System of Max Scheler), in 1954. As was the case with the first degree, he was not granted the degree upon earning it. This time, the faculty at Jagiellonian University was forbidden by communist authorities from granting the degree. In conjunction with his habilitation at Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, he finally obtained the doctorate in philosophy in 1957 from that institution, where he had assumed the Chair of Ethics in 1956.

On 4 July 1958 Pope Pius XII named him titular bishop of Ombi and auxiliary to Archbishop Baziak, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Kraków. Karol Wojtyła found himself at 38 the youngest bishop in Poland.

In 1962 Bishop Wojtyła took part in the Second Vatican Council, and in December 1963 Pope Paul VI appointed him Archbishop of Kraków. On 26 June 1967, Paul VI announced Archbishop Wojtyła's elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals with the title of Cardinal Priest of San Cesareo in Palatio.

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