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John Paul II: An Intellectual Journey
He accurately diagnosed the problems of modernity and of the contemporary Church
By John M. Grondelski | April 2nd 2025 8:54 PMToday is the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II. I miss him. John Paul was foundational in my life as a Catholic theologian. I was a college sophomore studying at St. Mary's College in Orchard Lake, Michigan, when he was elected. In those early college…
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We continue to learn much from the pope God gave us 45 years ago
By John M. Grondelski | October 16th 2023 12:45 PMOctober 16, 2023, marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the election of St. John Paul II as Pope. There are so many things about his 26-year pontificate for which we should be grateful, but I will focus on one I find particularly important: his Christian humanism. I am aware mention of…
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