Efforts By Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was one of the few popes to have grown up in a climate of flourishing Jewish culture, one of the key components of pre-war Kraków, and his interest in Jewish life dated from early youth.
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“Be not afraid!”
—John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)
“Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.”
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“Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,
A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.”
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“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
“Be not afraid!”
—John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (b. 1920)