John Paul II.

DEDICATED TO CARDINAL VAN THUÁNIt should have been His Eminence Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyén Van Thuán, President of the Pontifícal Council for Justice and Peace until 16 September 2002, the day on which the Lord called him home, who presented this publication. As a final and modest gift, we...

How This Book Came to Be IN OCTOBER OF 1993 JOHN PAUL II WOULD complete fifteen years of his papacy. For the occa-sion the Holy Father accepted Italian Radio and Tele-vision s proposal for a televised interview that would be transmitted by the major networks around the world. It would have been...

foreword "I Entrust to Mary My Pilgrimage of Peace!" At the usuai meeting with the faithful for the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, September 23, the Holy Father delivered the following address. Saturday, September 29, I will go on a journey to Ireland, from whence I will continue to the...

Time Aies and what lies imme-diately before our eyes quickly becomes the past changing into a vague me-mory, weake-ning slowly un-til it almost disappears. For this reason human beings seek to bolster their personal and collective memory to preserve, renew or transmit better the happenings and...

My Venerable Brother Bishops, Health and the Apostolic Blessing!Faith and reason are like two ^u^gs on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truthin a word, to know himselfso that, by knowing and loving God, men and...

Motto At the close ofthe second millennium, perhaps more than at any time before, we neediht words of the Risen Christ: „Do not be afraid!" Mankind, who even after the fall of Communism has not ceased to be afraid and who has many reasons to be afraid, is in need of these words. These words...