Blessed Pope John Paul II2.3. We: The Social Dimension of Community I believe it is extremely important to distinguish the social dimension of community from the inter-personal dimension. The need for this distinction is dictated by the different profiles of community, profiles that in a symbolic, but also very precise, way are expressed by the pronouns I—thou and we. … Read more
Editor’s note: The following article is an excerpt from Pope John Paul’s recent speech to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. It addresses the controversial, and much-misunderstood, Galileo condemnation, which is now officially void. A twofold question is at the heart of the debate of which Galileo was the center. The first is of the epistemological … Read more
Editor’s note: Pope John Paul II prepared the following reflection for a Vatican conference to commemorate the tricentennial of the publication of Newton’s Principia. Is the Community of world religions, including the Church, ready to enter into a more thorough-going dialogue with the scientific community, a dialogue in which the integrity of both religion and … Read more
On September 5, 1983, at Castelgandolfo, Pope John Paul II addressed the following words to twenty-three American bishops who were making their ad limina visit. The Pope spoke in English. The experience of the whole postconciliar life of the church confirms just how much the renewal willed by the Second Vatican Council depends on the … Read more