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Journal Article
ST. JOHN PAUL II: A CENTENARY REFLECTION
2020
Overview
To what would have been the stunned surprise of those present that day, the child grew up to be the emblematic figure of the second half of the twentieth century-as Henry Kissinger put it a few minutes after the death of Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2005. In the third decade of the twenty-first century, John Paul's reading of the signs of the times remains a template for understanding our civilization's distempers and rebuilding its moral-cultural foundations. After centuries of intellectual work, a sturdy span was built, and across it walked those who gave Christianity the Nicene Creed and the dogmatic definitions of ecumenical councils such as Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Constantinople III. The Thomistic dimension of this philosophical foundation is apparent when, in the third Athenian meditation, Wojtyla reminds his readers that the God of the Bible is not some super-Being in competition with the beings of this world (the mistake made by the atheistic humanists of the nineteenth century and replicated by the New Atheists of today).
