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Wojtyła & Vatican II
John Paul II's teaching and focus on proper implementation of the Council seems to have been lost
By John M. Grondelski | May 18th 2026 12:13 PMToday is Karol Wojtyła’s/St. John Paul II’s 126th birthday. He was born on Tuesday, May 18, 1920. It is hard to believe that, after a 26-year pontificate supplemented by eight of the Ratzinger pontificate, the teaching and focus of the Wojtyła papacy as a lens to view the proper implementation…
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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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