“Popes John Paul II and François have a lot of common points” | EUROtoday

Che April 2, the Catholic church celebrates the twenty years of the demise of Pope John Paul II. The election of Karol Wojtyla, October 16, 1978, the primary non -Italian pontiff, had been an enormous shock. Aged (solely) 58 years outdated, dynamic, sporting, globetrotter, hypercharismatic, that which was nicknamed “The athlete of God” had an incredible youth wind blow on Christianity, stirring the crowds with every of his appearances, and, on this world earlier than and after the autumn of the Berlin Wall, the Polish grew to become a serious actor in historical past The Solidarnosc motion, led by the electrician Lech Walesa and who overthrew the communist navy dictatorship. His finish of life-at the top of a hold forth over twenty-six-was an extended ordeal …