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John Paul II

Pope Saint John Paul II (1920-2005), born Karol Wojtyła, was the 264th supreme pontiff and head of the Catholic Church. He served from 1978 until his death in 2005 and was canonized by Francis in 2014.


A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members, and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal…. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit ascends to contemplation of truth.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

The history of every human being passes through the threshold of a woman's motherhood.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice, and solidarity.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes his freedom.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.