Washington D.C., May 18, 2020 / 16:45 pm
The life of Pope Saint John Paul II is proof that religious belief and moral conviction can change the course of history, the pope's biographer said on Monday, May 18.
Author and papal biographer George Weigel held an online seminar for the Centennial Celebration of Saint John Paul II's Birth, presented by the Saint John Paul II National Shrine.
Pope St. John Paul II was born on May 18, 1920, and was elected pope on October 16, 1978, he died on April 2, 2005, and was canonized on April 27, 2014. His feast day is October 22, the day he was inaugurated as pope.
During his 26-and-a-half-year papacy, the third longest in history and the longest in the modern era, John Paul II was "the great Christian witness of our time, the man who made Jesus Christ come alive for so many," said Weigel. "His own discipleship invited others to be Christian disciples."