1. Biographical Information about the significant Catholic Leader:
Who is John Paul?
John Paul or Karol Józef Wojtyla (also known as St John Paul II) was well known to be a Pope, elected on 16th October 1978. He had first made history in 1978 where he had become the first non-Italian pope in 400 years. He was an advocate for human rights as he used his influence politics to create change.
Where was he from? Where did he live?
John Paul was born in Poland in the city of Wadowice on the 18th of May 1920, the city was located 50 kilometers away from the Poland’s capital city, Warsaw.
Briefly outline what he did and how he did it.
John Paul had lived his life as a pro-family advocate by standing up for Women’s rights at the Beijing Women’s
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Pope John Paul II had continued devoting his faith towards his education in Krakow's Jagiellonian University in 1938. He had an interest in poetry and theatre, eventually considered to become a priest by being ordained in 1946 and became the Arch Bishop of Ombi in 1958 and then in Krakow in 1964.
How did they demonstrate servant leadership? (Qualities of leadership and their actions).
When World War II had ravaged through Poland in 1942, John Paul was forced to abandon his acting and quickly adapted to living the life as an underground seminarian. During the war, John Paul was scarred for life as he grieved for his mother’s early passing, which made him devoted as a monk. Four years later in 1946, John Paul was ordained into Priesthood, which made him undergo a role through leadership that would define him for the rest of his life.
What impact did his service have on their community at the time?
While Poland was mostly taken under Nazi Germany control, The Nazis believed Anti-Semitism was the only was that their country would be a powerful. John Paul had not believed this was the case, as it was his duty as a priest to care of his people, regardless of ethnicity or race. Professor Arthur Hertzberg from New York University quotes him as he “did a number of things which gave him among the Polish Jews who survived, the reputation of a friendly human being”. (Pr. Arthur Hertzberg, 1980s,
	John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken the family and moved to Arbigland where William Craik, the owner of a large estate their had met him and hired him to be his gardener.
...olved since the time his letters were written. Of course if we look at Paul with scrutiny through the lens of our contemporary beliefs, he looks as though he lacks compassion and a desire for equality; in fact, it would appear as though he was preaching against equality. Sarah Ruden puts the highlight on the time period that Paul was actually living in to validate her thesis that Paul was actually a revolutionary. He gave options and encouraged happiness and equality for women, preached compassion for slaves, and argued against an aggressive tradition in Roman society. Taking a look at his writing with the background information that Ruden provides a more insightful look at the apostle’s teachings, which was exactly her goal.
Born in Wright City, Missouri, June 21, 1892, he was educated at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Missouri; and Yale Divinity School. In 1915 he was ordained in the ministry of the Evangelical Synod of North America and made pastor of the Bethel Evangelical Church of Detroit. He held that post until 1928, at which time he joined the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, where he taught for 30 years. At the time of his retirement (1960) he held a chair of ethics and theology; he also served as dean (1950-55) and vice president (1955-60). After retiring he continued at Union as a lecturer.
John continued to fight for peace and change throughout the world. A famous poster ...
...rsued this moral throughout his time as Pope. Thus, through following the works of, and Jesus’ teachings of inclusion, John XXIII has contributed to Christianity being considered a living religious tradition.
John Jay was born in New York City on December 12, 1745 and was a self devoted leader that help the United States get to where it is today. He served a very important role in the Founding Fathers establishment as well as bringing overall greatness to the country. He devoted himself to the American Revolution as well as becoming the first Chief Justice of the United States. Serving in the Continental Congress, and becoming president of the congress gave him great power and confidence within himself.
“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.” Said by St. Pope John Paul II during one of his World Youth Day homilies this quote perfectly represents the man that St. Pope John Paul II was: a bold, forgiving, selfless, and loving man. Born on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland; John Paul II suffered a number of tragedies in the early years of his life. By the age of the twenty he lost all of his immediate family, and he credits the death of his father as the point in his life when he heard the call to live a life of religious vocation. In 1939, about one year after John Paul enrolled in The Krawkow Jaggelonian University, the Nazi closed the school and to avoid deportation to Germany all able men had to work. From 1940 to 1941 his holiness did various jobs, but it was during this time period that he was seriously contemplating priesthood. In 1942 John Paul II started studying at the underground seminary run by the Archbishop of Krakow, and during this time he was hit by a truck and recovered in matter of two weeks. To him this was a confirmation of his vocation. Once the war was finished the future pope was ordained priest and was then sent to Rome for further studies. After a two year time period in Rome, His Holy Father received his doctorate in theology and returned to Poland. After serving in several parishes and becoming a well-known religious face in Poland, St. John Paul II became the bishop of Ombi. During the six year time period that his holiness was the Bishop of Ombi, he achieved one of his life’s major accomplishments: he became one of the leading thinkers on the Vatican II council. While he was one the Vatican II co...
John had a strong background in the Anglican Church, “he never wavered in his own sense of loyalty. He loved the church of England dearly, gloried in its treasures, pined over its faults, and worked mightily to goad it into a deeper spirituality and into a more effective service to God” (p. 4, Abraham). John “inherited a rich theological tradition and was steeped in its way of piety and ritual. He spent most of his life in Anglican educational institutions, first as a student and then as a lecturer in Logic and Greek (p. 4, Abraham). “He was totally immersed in his church’s worship and prayer, shaped in a host of ways by its wonderful intellectual balance, ...
Saint Jerome Much like Saint Paul, Jerome’s sainthood began with a miracle from God. Born around 347 AD in a city called Stridon, Jerome began his high-achieving, 70 year life of devotion to God. He wasn’t baptized until he was around 15-20 years old, which goes to show that God can come into our lives at any time. This happened when he converted to Christianity in Rome. He was in Rome with a friend, Bonosus, to study rhetoric and philosophy.
On 1537, after the studies was complete, the men decided to go to Venice, Italy and start to be in missionaries to spread the Society of Jesus. Because of this, on June 24, 1537, he was ordained a priest because of his good work in the community and in the world. At the same time, on 1537, he and the men went to Rome and Italy to preach and care for the sick. Through this works, started to gain popularity and fame that even King John III of Portugal asked them for help. Even though they started to gain popularity, on March 15, 1540, he decided to leave and go to Lisbon to keep spreading the group. While he was leaving, Pope Paul III claimed Ignatius’s followers, the Society of Jesus, a religious group. As time passed, two years later, on May 6, 1542, he left Lisbon and Goa and decided to spend the next three years of his life in
The New Testament teaches about who Jesus is and what he did on the earth. John wrote the last of the four gospels which recount Jesus’ life and what is to come. The gospel of John is somewhat different from the other three gospels, in that it is more symbolic and less concrete. For example, John expresses Jesus as the Passover Lamb when Matthew, Mark, and Luke do not. This gospel is showing that Christianity is moving away from the long-practiced Jewish traditions. John’s gospel can be laid out into four parts: the prologue or the incarnate word, signs of the Messiah with teachings about life in him, the farewell teaching and the passion narrative, and the epilogue or the roles of Peter and of the disciple whom Jesus loved. The Gospel of John is arguably the most
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in a place called Thorn, which is now Torun, Poland. He was born on February 19, 1473, to an immigrant father from Kraków, Mikołaj (Nicolaus) Kopernik. His father had married a daughter of a prominent burgher family, Barbara Watzenrode. His family had great wealth due to exchanging goods of cattle, wheat, and other produce of Poland.
One of the most popular poets during the Enlightenment period was Alexander Pope. He wrote many of his poems based on satires and themes of philosophy that explored the purpose for reason. Alexander Pope was born on May 21, 1688, to Alexander and Edith Pope in London, England. His father was a wealthy linen merchant that was Catholic, this caused problems as soon as Pope was born because a Protestant was throned, making it illegal for people of the Catholic religion to hold office, practice their religion, or attend public schools (Poetry Foundation). This would cause problems for Pope’s publicity in his future career as a poet. Because of the discernment of his religion, Pope grew up in Windsor Forest, mostly self-taught, but also taught by private tutors and priests already writing poetry in his teenage years. His life was not only looked down upon because of his self-taught education and his unfavorable religion, but also
Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born on Holy Saturday April 16, 1927 at his parents' home in Marktl am Inn, Germany (Ewtn P. Ben XVI bio). He was the first person baptized in the Easter Water and blessed at the Easter Vigil (Ewtn P. Ben XVI bio). His father, Joseph Ratzinger Sr., was a policeman from a family of farmers from lower Baveria and his mother, Maria Ratzinger, was from a family of South Tyrol (Ewtn P. Ben XVI bio). In 1929 Joseph and his family moved to Tittmoning, a small town on the Salzach River, on the Austrian border (Ewtn P. Ben xvi bio). In 1932 his father's outspoken criticism of the Nazis required the family to relocate to Auschau am Inn (Wiki P. Ben XVI bio). His father retired in 1937, and his family moved to Hufschlag, outside of Traunstein (Wiki P. Ben XVI bio). There Joseph began studying classical languages at his local high school (Ewtn P. Ben XVI bio). In 1939, he entered the minor seminary in Traunstein, his first step toward the priesthood (Ewtn P. Ben XVI bio).
Catholic schools play an integral role in the saving mission of the Church as centres of evangelisation as evangelisation is “the mission of the Church” (Congregation for Catholic Education, 1977, para. 7). Pope Paul IV in Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975, para. 18) states that "Evangelising means to bring the Good News into all the strata of humanity, and through its influence transforming humanity from within and making it new, 'Now I am making the whole of creation new' (Revelation 21:5). But there is no new humanity if there are not first of all new persons renewed by baptism, and by lives lived according to the Gospel." As leaders of catholic schools principals play an integral role in not only the organisational and instructional leadership