Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was pope from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, especially in the names of institutions...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth18 May 1920
CityWadowice, Poland
CountryPoland
Pope John Paul II quotes about
war mean past
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
war hatred intolerance
Never again war. Never again hatred and intolerance.
peace war names
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
christian peace war
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.
religious war mean
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.
war humanity unfair
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...
peace war men
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
war past humanity
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
war catholic absence
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
peace war problem
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
peace war humanity
War is a defeat for humanity.
faith inspiration giving
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
eye world genocide
A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.
philosophy men theory-of-evolution
Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.