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How The Pope Francis Years Revealed Dark Sides Of John Paul II’s Legacy In His Native Poland
Pope Francis had a remarkable impact on the Vatican. In Poland, the last Catholic stronghold of Europe, Francis took action, ...
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27 Genuinely Fascinating Photos Of Pope Francis You've Probably Never Seen Before
Pope Francis passed away on Monday at the age of 88. Though he held the most powerful position in the Catholic Church for 12 ...
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Considered a national symbol, the Zygmunt Bell in Kraków is definitely the most famous bell in Poland. For 500 years, it’s been marking the most important events in Polish history with its sonorous ...
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The Dinner That Helped Save Europe
In 1979, during John Paul II’s first visit to the United States as pope, he met with President ... 1980 in dissuading the Soviets from invading Poland, where the Solidarity movement had just ...
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Pope John Paul II 20 Years Later: ‘He Lives in Hearts’
In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. (photo: Gregorini Demetrio ...
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Saint John Paul II National Shrine to host ‘Divine Mercy with Saint John Paul II and Saint Faustina’ exhibit
The exhibit, entitled “‘The Happiest Day of My Life’: Divine Mercy with Saint John Paul II and Saint Faustina,” expresses the ...
Reporter's Notebook: From John Paul II to Francis, covering two historic papacies
Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' ...
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Pope St. John Paul II, Doctor of the Church?
Pope John Paul II waves to the cheering crowd on June 10, 1987, prior to a Mass in Krakow during his visit to Poland. (photo: ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP via Getty Images) ...