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Servant of the Servants of God

...interest and nature of the Catholic Church. Another example of the universality of the Church was at the time of Pope John Paul II's death, when the world experienced the largest funeral in the history of mankind. However, during this current...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-03-03/servant-servants-god
Opinion
My Turn: Holocaust remembrance day is today

...destruction or the calamity which is used instead of Holocaust by the state of Israel and by the Vatican, Blessed Pope John Paul II a Pole who witnessed both the anti-Semitism of his own nation and the crimes of the Nazi's firsthand, apologized...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-01-27/my-turn-holocaust-remembrance-day-tod
Opinion
Outside editorial: End Haiti's despair

In March 1983, Pope John Paul II delivered a moving sermon in Haiti. Denouncing the...Haiti's future. "Something must change here," Pope John Paul II declared more than a quarter century ago. Its people...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/033110/opi_598534403.shtml
Opinion
Outside editorial: The Pope's message

...octogenarian - with a less ambitious itinerary. But, like John Paul II's 1979 tour, Benedict XVI's visit to New York and...General Assembly. In that speech, Benedict endorsed Pope John Paul II's call for a "greater degree of international ordering...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/042308/opi_271345299.shtml
Solidarity with those who suffer

...need - whether it be natural disasters or foolish actions by human beings. Writing on the virtue of solidarity, Pope John Paul II wrote in 1987: "Solidarity is undoubtedly a Christian virtue. It seeks to go beyond itself to total gratuity, forgiveness...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-08/solidarity-those-who-suffer
Opinion
The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members

...not yet the case in our society. In an address to participants at an international symposium on Down syndrome, Pope John Paul II said, "The increasing use of selective abortion as a means of preventing the birth of handicapped children requires...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-08-05/measure-civilization-how-it-treats-it
Opinion
Looking back, moving forward: Cy Peck Jr. reflects on his life in pictures

...from "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" and Kake artist Michael Jackson. There's also photos of Peck with Pope John Paul II, and with Cree and Shoshone medicine people, and others of him participating in Tlingit ceremonies.The path he's...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2011-07-06/looking-back-moving-forward-cy-peck-jr-re
Art
Juneau bishop chosen for role in World Youth Day

...for those attending at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, 9055 Atlin Drive. Pope John Paul II created the event in 1985. For more information, call Karla Donaghey at 586-2227 or email her at juneaudiocese...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-07-30/juneau-bishop-chosen-role-world-you
Neighbors
Pope heads into busy Christmas season tired

...also an obligation to resign," Benedict said.The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had an intimate view as Pope John Paul II, with whom he had worked closely for nearly a quarter-century, suffered through the debilitating end of his papacy...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2011-12-18/pope-heads-busy-christmas-season-tire
Not For Web
Meeting face to face - not easy, but important

...Bishop Crimont until the present day, the spiritual care of Alaska has been of care and concern by the Holy See. Pope John Paul II visited Alaska twice and Pope Benedict XVI has been invited to visit. Nevertheless, while in Rome, I will meet with...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-15/meeting-face-face-not-easy-important
Opinion

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