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Karol Józef Wojtyła est un prêtre polonais, évêque puis archevêque de Cracovie, cardinal, élu pour être le 264e pape de l’Église catholique le 16 octobre 1978 sous le nom de Jean-Paul II . Il est appelé saint Jean-Paul II par les catholiques depuis sa canonisation en 2014.

Étudiant polonais en philologie, il joue dans un groupe de théâtre antinazi et entre au séminaire clandestin en 1942. Ordonné prêtre en 1946, après des études à Rome et en France, il est prêtre en Pologne communiste en 1948 auprès de la jeunesse. Après sa thèse sur l'amour, particulièrement conjugal, le cardinal Sapieha le nomme à l'université. Il devient, en 1958, le plus jeune évêque polonais. Il s'oppose au matérialisme, notamment en demandant une église à Nowa Huta.

Pendant Vatican II, sa maîtrise des langues et de la théologie en font le porte-parole de l'épiscopat polonais, ce qui le fait remarquer par le futur Paul VI. Archevêque, puis cardinal en 1968 , il défend les ouvriers face au régime communiste, défendant les droits de l'homme et il s'intègre à la curie où, à la demande de Paul VI, il prêche les exercices spirituels de 1976. Il reçoit des voix lors du conclave d'août 1978. À l'issue du conclave d'octobre 1978, qui fait suite à la mort brutale de Jean-Paul Ier, il est élu sur proposition du cardinal König. C’est le premier pape non italien depuis le pape néerlandais Adrien VI en 1522, ainsi que le premier pape polonais et slave de l’histoire du catholicisme.

En tant que pape, il s'oppose à l'idéologie communiste et par son action, notamment en Pologne, favorise la chute du bloc de l'Est. Sa volonté de défense de la dignité humaine le conduit à promouvoir les droits de l’homme. Il améliore sensiblement les relations du catholicisme avec les juifs, les orthodoxes, les anglicans et les musulmans. Il est à l’origine de la première réunion internationale inter-religieuse d’Assise en 1986, réunissant plus de 194 chefs de religion.

Son pontificat est à ce jour le troisième plus long de l’histoire catholique après ceux de saint Pierre et Pie IX . Il a parcouru plus de 129 pays pendant son pontificat, plus de cinq cents millions de personnes ayant pu le voir durant cette période, et institué de grands rassemblements, comme les Journées mondiales de la jeunesse. Il a béatifié 1 340 personnes et canonisé 483 saints, soit plus que pendant les cinq siècles précédents.

Jean-Paul II est généralement considéré comme l’un des meneurs politiques les plus influents du XXe siècle. Plus encore, il est présenté de plus en plus comme le modèle de la nouvelle évangélisation, portée par l'ensemble de sa vision pastorale et incarnée jusque dans sa sainteté de vie. Béatifié le 1er mai 2011 par son successeur le pape Benoît XVI, puis canonisé par le pape François le 27 avril 2014, il est considéré comme saint par l'Église catholique et est fêté le 22 octobre, date de son intronisation pontificale. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. mai 1920 – 2. avril 2005   •   Autres noms Karol Józef Wojtyła
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“philosophy must obey its own rules and be based upon its own principles; truth, however, can only be one.”

Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

“The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man.”

Pope John Paul II Veritatis Splendor

Encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, 1993
Source: http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_06081993_veritatis-splendor.html

“Dear brothers and sisters, we are all still grieved after the death of our most beloved John Paul I. And now the eminent cardinals have called a new bishop of Rome. They have called him from a far country… far, but always near through the communion of faith and in the Christian tradition. (…) I don't know if I can make myself clear in your… in our Italian language. If I make a mistake, you will correct me.”

Carissimi fratelli e sorelle, siamo ancora tutti addolorati dopo la morte del nostro amatissimo Papa Giovanni Paolo I. Ed ecco che gli Eminentissimi Cardinali hanno chiamato un nuovo vescovo di Roma. Lo hanno chiamato da un paese lontano... lontano, ma sempre così vicino per la comunione nella fede e nella tradizione cristiana. (...) Non so se posso bene spiegarmi nella vostra... nostra lingua italiana. Se mi sbaglio mi correggerete.
the pope intentionally mispronounced the Italian word correggerete, "you will correct".
First address to the faithful in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City, on 16 October 1978
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1978/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19781016_primo-saluto_it.html (Italian)

“There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.”

Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, 8 December 1999

Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_08121999_xxxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html

“Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!”

Address on arrival at the Sarajevo Airport on 12 April 1997, during the pope's apostolic journey to Bosnia-Herzegovina
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_12041997_sarajevo-arrival_en.html

“Dear Kashubian brothers and sisters! Cherish the values and the heritage that define your identity.”

Drodzy bracia i siostry Kaszubi! Strzeżcie tych wartości i tego dziedzictwa, które stanowią o Waszej tożsamości.
Homily during the Holy Mass in Gdynia 11 June 1987, during the pope's apostolic journey to Poland
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/pl/homilies/1987/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19870611_gente-mare.html (Polish)

“(…) New knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.”

(...) De nouvelles connaissances conduisent à reconnaître dans la théorie de l'évolution plus qu'une hypothèse. Il est en effet remarquable que cette théorie se soit progressivement imposée à l'esprit des chercheurs, à la suite d'une série de découvertes faites dans diverses disciplines du savoir. La convergence, nullement recherchée ou provoquée, des résultats de travaux menés indépendamment les uns des autres, constitue par elle même un argument significatif en faveur de cette théorie.
early news reports mistranslated the French phrase plus qu'une hypothèse as "more than one hypothesis". http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/LifeScience/PhysicalAnthropology/EvolutionFact/Evolution/Evolution.htm
Message to the participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 October 1996
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/pont_messages/1996/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19961022_evoluzione_fr.html (French)

“How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.”

Speech delivered at the Yad Vashem Museum at Jerusalem, Israel - March 23, 2000 http://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/yad_vashem.htm

“The Jewish religion is not extrinsic, but in a certain way intrinsic to our own religion. Therefore, we have a relationship which we do not have with any other religion. You are our dearly beloved brothers, and, in a certain way, it can be said that you are our elder brothers.”

Address during a visit in the Great Synagogue of Rome on 13 April 1986
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1986/april/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19860413_sinagoga-roma_it.html (Italian)

“A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.”

Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2000/apr-jun/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000525_ambassador-new-zealand_en.html

“Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.”

Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”

When asked whether it was becoming for a cardinal to ski (Cardinal Wojtyła was an avid skier).
Source: [Pakenham Longford (Earl of), Frank, 1982, Pope John Paul II: an authorized biography, W. Morrow]

“And I cry – I who am a son of the land of Poland and who am also Pope John Paul II – I cry from all the depths of this Millennium, I cry on the vigil of Pentecost: Let your Spirit descend! Let your Spirit descend! And renew the face of the earth. The face of this land!”

I wołam, ja, syn polskiej ziemi, a zarazem ja: Jan Paweł II papież, wołam z całej głębi tego tysiąclecia, wołam w przeddzień święta Zesłania, wołam wraz z wami wszystkimi: Niech zstąpi Duch Twój! Niech zstąpi Duch Twój! I odnowi oblicze ziemi. Tej ziemi!
the Polish word ziemi means both "earth" and "land"; on the former utterance, it refers to the entire planet, on the latter – to Poland.
Homily during the Holy Mass in Victory Square in Warsaw on 2 June 1979, during the pope's first apostolic journey to Poland
Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19790602_polonia-varsavia_en.html

“faith and reason “mutually support each other”; each influences the other, as they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus to pursue the search for deeper understanding”

Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

“to argue according to rigorous rational criteria is to guarantee that the results attained are universally valid.”

Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998

Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

“It is helpful to recall that the death of the person is a single event, consisting in the total disintegration of that unitary and integrated whole that is the personal self. The death of the person, understood in this primary sense, is an event which no scientific technique or empirical method can identify directly.”

Human experience shows that once death occurs certain biological signs inevitably follow, which medicine has learnt to recognize with increasing precision. In this sense, the "criteria" for ascertaining death used by medicine today should not be understood as the technical-scientific determination of the exact moment of a person's death, but as a scientifically secure means of identifying the biological signs that a person has indeed died.
Address to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society, 29 August 2000

“Racism is a sin, which is a serious offense to God.”

Original: (pl) Rasizm jest grzechem, który stanowi poważną obrazę Boga.
Source: Nigdywiecej.org https://www.nigdywiecej.org/pdf/pl/pismo/16/031_Kazde-prawe-sumienie.pdf March 13, 2020

“The disposition to listen to the Truth (that is, obedience) and the readiness to act in the Truth constitute the true dignity of the human person.”

John Paul II. Teachings for an Unbelieving World . Ave Maria Press, Kindle Edition, March 2020

“Surely it is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”

Source http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1995/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19951008_baltimore.html Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Sunday, 8 October 1995
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220416100400/https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1995/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19951008_baltimore.html Archived] from [https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1995/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19951008_baltimore.html the original

“The universal call to holiness is closely linked to the universal call to mission.”

Pope John Paul II Redemptoris Missio

Redemptoris Missio §90
Redemptoris Missio (1990)

“Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes his freedom.”

Pope John Paul II Veritatis Splendor

Veritatis Splendor §1
Veritatis Splendor (1993)

“Young people have a special place in the heart of the Holy Father, who often repeats that the whole Church looks to them with particular hope for a new beginning of evangelization.”

Pope John Paul II livre Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Paul II, Pope John. Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994)

“Jesus came into the world to reveal the whole dignity and nobility of the search for God, which is the deepest need of the human soul, and to meet the search halfway.”

John Paul II, General Audience of 27 December 1978 https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/1978/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_19781227.html
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