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His crusades against political oppression have been widely praised, while his conservative social positions have drawn corresponding criticism. His trips abroad — 100 by the year 2003 — have attracted enormous crowds (some of the largest ever assembled). With these trips, John Paul has covered a distance far greater than that traveled by all other popes combined. They have been an outward sign of the efforts at global bridge-building between nations and between religions that have been central to his pontificate.
Pope John Paul II has beatified and canonised far more persons than any other previous pope in history. It is reported that as of October 2004, he has beatified 1,340 people. Whether he has canonised more saints than all his predecessors put together, as is sometimes claimed, is difficult to prove, as the records of many early canonisations are incomplete or missing.
On 14 March 2004 his pontificate overtook Leo XIII's as the longest in the history of the papacy other than Pius IX and St. Peter. In February 2010, if still the pope, he will overtake Pius IX as having the longest Papal reign ever. The length of his term is in extreme contrast with that of his predecessor John Paul I, who died suddenly after only 33 days in office (and in whose memory John Paul II named himself).
At the height of his papacy, Pope John Paul II went to the Holocaust memorial Yad VashemYad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament. It consists of a memorial chamber, a historical museum, an art gallery, a Hall of Name in IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. and touched the holiest shrine of the JewThe word Jew is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to either a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or a member of the Jewish culture or ethnicity. This article discusses the term as describing an ethnic group; for aish people, the Western WallThe Western Wall known as the Kotel HaMa'aravi in Hebrew, also called the Wailing Wall (or Al-Buraq Wall in a mix of English and Arabic) is a remaining outer court-yard wall of the Temple in Jerusalem, the holiest building in Judaism connected to the spec in Jerusalem, in March 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, promoting Christian-Jewish reconciliation.
Karol Józef Wojtyla (pronounced: voy-TIH-wah) was born in Wadowice, Southern Poland, a son of a former officer in the Habsburg army. His youth is marked by intensive contacts with the then-thriving Jewish community of Kraków, and the experience of Nazi occupation, during which he worked in a quarry and a chemical factory. An athlete, actor, and playwright in his youth, Karol Wojtyla was ordained a priest on November 1, 1946. He taught ethics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and subsequently at the Catholic University of Lublin. In 1958 he was named auxiliary bishop of Kraków and four years later he assumed leadership of the diocese with the title of vicar capitular.
On December 30, 1963, he was named Archbishop of Kraków by Pope Paul VI. As both bishop and archbishop, Wojtyla participated in the Second Vatican Council, making contributions to the documents that would become the Decree on Religious Freedom ( Dignitatis Humanae) and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes), two of the most historic and influential products of the council.
In 1967 Pope Paul VI elevated him to cardinal. In August 1978, following Pope Paul's death, he participated in the Papal Conclave that elected Albino Luciani, the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, as Pope John Paul I. At 65, Luciani was a young man by papal standards. While Wojtyla at 58 could have expected to participate in another papal conclave before reaching the age of eighty (the upper age limit for cardinal electors), he could hardly have expected that his second conclave would come so soon, for on 28 September 1978, after only 33 days in the papacy, Pope John Paul I died, in circumstances that still remain mysterious. In October 1978 Wojtyla returned to Vatican City to participate in the second conclave in less than two months.
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