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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.... (more Pope John Paul II quotes)
[last words] Pope John Paul II: let me go to the house of the Father.
He was the leader of the Catholic Church for almost 27 years.
He was the central figure, in Kenneth Joel Hotz documentary "The Papal Chase".
Was succeeded by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI (19 April 2005).
He spoke eight languages.... (more Pope John Paul II trivia)
| Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words by Pope John Paul II | |
| Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel | |
| The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican by David Yallop |