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Arturo Mari Tells Polish Youth About John Paul II

"Czestochowa occupies a special place in my life; here I feel at home," said Arturo Mari, Blessed John Paul II's photographer, when he met with a group of mostly students from the city.

To the question of how he sees Czestochowa seven years after John Paul II's death, Mari stressed that "if you participate every day in Jasna Gora's appeal, a traditional Marian hymn, and if the Museum of the Coins of John Paul II is here, the only one of its kind in the world, he, John Paul II, is here with you."

Pope Wojtyla's photographer said that "the real power of John Paul II's pontificate was young people. You were his hope, his strength," stressed Mari.

"Love for young people was his style of life. He wanted young people to live with dignity and in harmony with the Truth. Young people sought their way in the life of that man," continued the photographer.

An Insider's Look at the Life of Pope John Paul II

A former secretary’s memoirs focus on the personal, day-to-day life of the papal apartment.

Think of Pope John Paul II’s secretary, and Stanisław Dziwisz springs to mind. Then-Father Dziwisz was Cardinal Wojtyla’s secretary since 1966; he served him until the day he died — and is now his successor as archbishop of Krakow.

But over the course of his quarter-century pontificate, John Paul also had other assistant secretaries. One of them was Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, now archbishop of the ecumenically sensitive see of Lviv, Ukraine. These are his memoirs, in interview format.

If Cardinal Dziwisz takes the more macro picture of the historical importance of Wojtyla’s pontificate, Archbishop Mokrzycki focuses more on the personal, day-to-day life of the papal apartment. He speaks about the human side of living with and working alongside Blessed John Paul II.

Feb. 13-20 declared as Blessed John Paul II week

THE Bacolod City Council passed a resolution, declaring February 13 to 20, 2012 as Blessed John Paul II week in the city.

Per the resolution, Bacolod was one of the few cities in the Philippines visited by then Pope John Paul II, world leader of Catholics, in February 20, 1981. Pope John Paul’s cause for sainthood in the Catholic Church started with his death on April 2, 2005.

The Centro Giovanni Paolo II Research Center to open

The Centro Giovanni Paolo II Research Center, located at 111 Lacson Street in Bacolod, will be inaugurated February 15, Monsignor Victorino Rivas, vicar general of the Diocese of Bacolod, said.

The family of the late Antonio and Gloria Esteban will turn over their ancestral home to the John Paul II National Institute for Marriage and the Family for its use as a research center, Rivas, who is also the director of the Institute, added, in a press release.

Blessed John Paul II's Perspective on Authentic Relationships

Before the world knew Bl. Pope John Paul II, Fr. Karol Wojtyla wrote a work entitled Love and Responsibility. The text presents a unique philosophical introduction to the individual, relationships, the nature of sexuality and holy matrimony. It is the very substance of these topics that our modern world seeks to rewrite. However as we stand against the unjust HHS mandate and other attempts to further redefine sexuality and human relations, we must also remember to nurture our own relationships. In fact, the best defense of a natural relationship may be the observable charity and maturity within our own.

The prophetic young Wojtyla was inspired to write the book after spending time with a group of students that had coalesced during his time teaching at Lublin University. The group originally centered on discussing the common relational trials of youths and would spend their time serving the downtrodden.

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