- Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II born (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from October 16, 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s.
- Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, …
- Louis de Montfort
St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, French priest and Catholic saint, born in 31 January 1673 at Montfort, ordained to the priesthood in Paris in June 1700, and died at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre on 28 April 1716. St. Louis was beatified by Pope Leo XIII in 1888 and canonized by Pius XII in 1947. His feast day is celebrated by the Church on 28 April. The saint served as a missionary among the people of Brittany and the Vendee.
- Joan Chittister
Sister Joan D. Chittister, OSB (born 26 April 1936) is a Benedictine nun and an international lecturer on topics concerning women, the poor, peace and justice, and contemporary issues in church and society. In her more than 50 years as a nun she has authored 35 books, including recent books such as : "The Ten Commandments, Laws of the Heart; The Tent of Abraham - stories of hope and peace for Jews, …
- Pope John Paul II
Yo, check it. All y'all know me as Pope John Paul II. I'm keepin' it real for Jesus (He prefers J-Dogg) and all the other peeps representin' for the Lord. I joined Myspace to spread da word of J-Dogg and his crew and for some fly hunnies. When I ain't keepin' it real as da Pope, I'm freestylin' and MCin'. I'm working on some real fly sh** wit my dogg Nelly and R Kelly.
- Pope John Paul II
I like to chill with my homie Jesus, pray with the peeps, and just do all the the awesome things popes do. I also love to spread some hate for the protestants, those god damned wanna be xtians! Pass times: Freebasin da crack pipe Shootin the heroine Swimming in the LSD.
- Pope John Paul II
My Name is John Paul II aka The Pope and im here to get the word out yo ....God is good FO SHOOO!
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Love all people.
- Pope John Paul II
well... i am the pope (woo hoo) and i love to go clubbin' and partyin'.
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(in the third person) Karol Józef Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in the Polish town of Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometers from Krakow, on May 18, 1920. He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died in 1929.
- John Paul II
I am the Pope. I enjoy writing poetry and am the first non-Italian to be elected Pope. I wear robes and a big hat. I survived the holocaust and have had an attempt on my life in 1983. If you like to party, I'm your man!
- John Paul II
Well the name I was born with is Karol Jozef Wojtlya. I was born May 18 1920. I am known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, and i have been in heaven since April 2 2005 and Enjoying it here ever since.
- Pope John Paul II
( Hi my name is Lucky. I put this profile on here as a loving tribute to Pope John Paul II. Please be respectful in your comments on here. If you have suggestions for this page let me know!) I was born in Wadowice, Poland; given the name Karol Jozef Wojtya. My mother passed when I was 6 years old, and so I was raised by my father. Who was a very kind and holy man.
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Yeah, the pope has a myspace...
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im all time ruler of the cathlics and if u dont like it, well tough really for god's sake!holy balls of fire!
- Jan Hus
Jan Hus (alternative spellings John Hus, Jan Huss, John Huss) (c. 1370 Husinec (Prachatice District), Bohemia - July 6, 1415 Konstanz, Germany) was a Czech religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague. His followers became known as Hussites. The Roman Catholic Church considered his teachings heretical, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, …
- Miguel Pro
Miguel Agustín Pro, S.J. was a Mexican Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, executed during the persecution of the Catholic Church under the presidency of Plutarco Calles after trumped up charges of involvement in an assassination attempt against Álvaro Obregón. He was beatified by John Paul II as a martyr on September 25, 1988.
- Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz is the Roman Catholic archbishop of Moscow, Russia. He is a native of Odelsk near Grodno, Belarus (then USSR), and was originally named Faddei (Tadeusz) Ignatievich Kondrusiewicz (ru: Фаддей (Тадеуш) Игнатьевич Кондрусевич). He was born into the pious family of Ignati Kondrusiewicz (1906–1985) and his wife Anna (maiden name Anna Szusta; 1911–1999), being the older of two children (his sister was Maria Buro, …
- Zenon Grocholewski
"His Eminence" Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski (born October 11, 1939) is a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
- Jacques Dupuis
Jacques Dupuis (December 5, 1923, Huppaye, Brabant, Belgium - December 28, 2004, Rome) was a Belgian Jesuit priest. Jacques Dupuis became a Jesuit in 1941. After early religious and academic training in Belgium he left for India in 1948. A 3 year (1948-51) teaching experience at St Xavier's High-School, Calcutta, made him discover Hinduism through the way it shaped the personalities of the students entrusted to him.
- Jonathan Morris
Fr. Jonathan Morris (born August 22, 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio), is an American Roman Catholic priest and vice-rector of the Legionaries of Christ seminary in Rome, Italy. He is currently a news contributor and analyst for the Fox News Channel.
- Marian Jaworski
Marian Cardinal Jaworski is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lviv of the Latins in the Roman Catholic Church. Born as son of Wincenty and Stanisława Łastowiecka in Lwów, Poland ("now Lviv, Ukraine"), Jaworski studied at the Lwów Major Seminary and was ordained in Kraków on June 25, 1950. He served as a priest for two years (1950–1952) before returning to school, obtaining three doctorates by 1965 – one in theology from the Jagiellonian University, …
- Stephen Fumio Hamao
Stephen Fumio Cardinal Hamao is a Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants until it merged with other elements of the Roman Curia. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. Born in Tokyo, Hamao studied in his native Japan and then at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, ordained as a priest on 21 December 1957.
- Andrew Kim Taegon
St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon was Korea's first Roman Catholic priest. In the early 17th century, Roman Catholicism in Korea was primarily introduced by laypeople. It wasn't until the mid-1800s that Korea saw its first missionaries arrive only to find out that the people there were already practicing Christianity.
- Jaime Lucas Ortega Y Alamino
Jaime Lucas Cardinal Ortega y Alamino is the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second Cuban elevated to Cardinal. He studied for priesthood at the Seminary of San Alberto Magno in Matanzas and in the Seminary of the Fathers of Foreign Missions in Quebec, Canada. He was ordained a priest on August 2, 1964 by Bishop Jose Maximino Dominguez-Rodriguez of Matanzas.
- Domenico Sorrentino
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino (born 1948) is an Italian Catholic archbishop. He was born at Boscoreale near Nola, outside Naples in Italy, on May 16 1948. He undertook the usual seminary studies and was ordained a Catholic priest for the diocese of Nola on 24 June 1972, having studied at the Roman ecclesiastical Universities as a pupil of the Almo Collegio Capranica, an ancient Roman seminary named after Cardinal Domenico Capranica.
- Geraldo Majella Agnelo
Geraldo Majella Cardinal Agnelo, is a Brazilian prelate, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia and Primate of Brazil. He was born in Juiz de Fora. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of São Paulo on June 29, 1957 and holds a doctorate in liturgy from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm, Rome. He was director of the philosophical seminary, Aparecida, spiritual director and professor at Immaculate Conception Seminary, Ipiranga, …
- Aida Fariscal
Aida D. Fariscal (1940? -) is a former police officer and watch commander in the Manila Police Department in the Philippines. She is now a retired grandmother living on pension in a one bedroom apartment. Fariscal spent seventeen years as a homemaker before enrolling in the police department in 1977. The widow of a slain police officer, she rose through the ranks of the Manila Police Department, and in 1983 won an award for arresting three murder suspects on Mindoro Island.
- Ivo Sanader
Ivo Sanader is the current Prime Minister of Croatia (President of the Government). After the victory of his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the 2003 parliamentary elections the President of the Republic named Sanader the Prime Minister designate on December 9, 2003. When Croatian Parliament subsequently gave its consent by 88 votes (out of 152) on December 23, 2003 Sanader was formally appointed.
- Agnes Of Bohemia
Saint Agnes of Bohemia (or Agnes of Prague) is a saint venerated by Roman Catholics. She was a descendant of Saint Ludmila and a cousin of Elizabeth of Thuringia. Agnes was born in Prague in 1211, and died there on March 6, 1282. Her feast day is celebrated on March 2. Agnes was the daughter of Bohemian king Premysl Otakar I and Constance of Hungary, the sister of King Andrew II of Hungary.
- Richard Hill
Blessed Richard Hill (?-1590), Catholic priest and martyr. He was born at a date unknown in Yorkshire. Very little is known of him except that like his fellow Yorkshiremen John Hogg and Richard Holiday, he arrived in the mid-1580s at the English College at Rheims to study for the priesthood, Holiday on September 6, 1584, Hill on May 15, 1587, and Hogg on October 15, 1587. The three were together ordained subdeacons at Soissons on March 18, 1589, …
- Leo Scheffczyk
Leo Cardinal Scheffczyk (February 21, 1920 - December 8, 2005) was a long-time theologian at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and one of the strongest forces for orthodoxy during the long pontificate of John Paul II. He severely criticized some of his former students, e.g. Leonardo Boff, during the 1980s and 1990s, who took a liberal stance.
- Bernhard Lichtenberg
Bernhard Lichtenberg (December 3, 1875 - November 5, 1943) was a German Catholic priest and theologian. He was born on the 3rd of December, 1875, in Ohlau, Prussia (today Poland), near Breslau, and studied theology in Innsbruck, Austria. He was then ordained priest in 1899. He began his ministry in Berlin in 1900 as parson in Charlottenburg. For a time he also was a member of the local parliament for the Centre Party.
- Gianni Giansanti
Gianni Giansanti is a long time photographer of Pope John Paul II.