Eyster, James Parry, Pope John Paul II and Immigration Law and Policy (2007). Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 85, 2007 . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1758057 INTRODUCTION The immigration debate in the United States and in other developed countries has proved vitriolic and divisive, one view espousing limited immigration based on a…
His Holiness Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła, reigned 1978 to 2005) was not a jurist-pope in the tradition of, for example, Pope Gregory IX, who directed St. Raymond of Peñafort in the production of the Liber Extra, also called Decretales (1). St. Raymond’s work served as a cornerstone of canon law until the twentieth…
At the deepest levels of his self-understanding and sense of vocation, the late Pope John Paul II was a Christian disciple and a pastor of Christ’s Church. Precisely as such–as a disciple, a priest, and a bishop–John Paul II exerted what many believe to be the greatest influence on world affairs of any pope…
INTRODUCTION (Saint) Pope John Paul II, the late head of the Holy See, which is the governing organ of Vatican City and the Roman Catholic Church, (1) commenced an important conversation with women on January 1, 1995. On that day, he delivered the annual World Day of Peace message, inviting women “to become teachers of…
This article explores the thought of Pope John Paul II on religious liberty. Reference is made to the significance of Dignitatis Humanae as the interpretive key to Vatican II. The article does a fine job of contextualizing religious freedom within a broader context. In particular, the central question explored is whether a state may under certain…
