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By Jonathan Luxmoore, CNS WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — Pope John Paul II sang and made jokes even at the end of his life, said a Polish archbishop who was one of the pope’s personal secretaries. “The pope loved to laugh and could play innocent pranks,” said Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of the Latin-rite Archdiocese of Lviv, Ukraine. “He wasn’t exuberant and didn’t collect information, and he preferred to listen rather than talk. But he also noticed it … [Read more...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope John Paul II’s ability to communicate was not primarily a result of his experience as an amateur actor, but was an expression of his theology, said the authors of a new book. In his speeches and writings, whether the audience was religious or not, the late pope continually emphasized the role of Jesus Christ as both the creator of words and as the embodiment of the Word, the authors said at a round-table discussion when the book was … [Read more...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As a 37-year-old priest, then-Father Donald W. Wuerl witnessed the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, as reportedly the only noncardinal allowed into that conclave. He was priest-secretary to U.S. Cardinal John Wright, who was then in frail health, and he assisted the churchman at the conclave. That priest is now a cardinal and the archbishop of Washington. On May 1, he will be among the cardinals from throughout the world who will join Pope … [Read more...]
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