I am very pleased to be participating in this conference on the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Although I am speaking on John Paul II’s profound impact on the Church’s teaching on the morality of capital punishment, I would like to begin with a few comments about John Patti II’s larger legacy and, in…
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…
