John Paul II: a picture is worth a thousand words

JPII with Gorbachev

Under billboard of communist leaders Sandino and Fonseca

JPII with Castro

Addressing United Nations

With Augusto Pinochet

June 17, 1983: With Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski at Belvedere Palace

• Castro: "I renew my greeting to the Cuban authorities and wish upon you, your family and your collaborators, as well as upon the entire Cuban Nation, which I remember always with affection, God's help and His abundant blessings" (B.S. Detector, "Censoring the Pope," week of 1/13-19/2005, www.progresoweekly.com.)

• Augusto Pinochet: former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule…According to a government report that included testimony from more than 30,000 people, his government killed at least 3,197 people and tortured about 29,000. Two-thirds of the cases listed in the report happened in 1973 (Monte Reel and J.Y. Smith (2006, December 11), A Chilean Dictator’s Dark Legacy. The Washington Post, Retrieved July 1, 2009, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000302.html

• Wojciech Jaruzelski: Communist leader of Poland, resisted opposition from labor unions by imposing martial law

• On Oct. 24, 2001, John Paul II apologized to Red China: “The Catholic Church for her part regards with respect this impressive thrust and far-sighted planning… The Church has very much at heart the values and objectives which are of primary importance also to modern China: solidarity, peace, social justice…” John Paul II stated that the Catholic Church and China are two ancient institutions “not in opposition to one another” (L’ Osservatore Romano, Oct. 31, 2001, p. 4).

A pontifical homage to Judaism at the Rome synagogue in 1986

Giving a relic of St. Gregory the Illuminator to the head of the schismatic “Church” in Armenia

“Worshipping” with Archbishop of Canterbury

Assisi, 1986: praying with pagans, holding a tree instead of a crucifix

February, 1986: cow dung is applied to his forehead by adorers of the goddess Shiva

“And Jesus said to him: Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?” (Lk. 22:48).

"Today as a pilgrim of peace, I have come here to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi, hero of humanity."

Receives a holy eagle feather from a Pima shaman in Phoenix - 1987

Semi-naked and bare-breasted natives present Offertory gifts at Mass in Papua New Guinea - 1984

Nov. 7, 1999: “Pan-Christian Encounter”

Jewish prayer service held in the Vatican

Meeting with the schismatic Bishop of Alexandria, who calls himself “Pope” Shenouda III

Eastern Schismatic Leader

April 2000 with King of Morocco, descendant of Muhammad

May, 2001: with Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Kfutaro

Statue of Buddha on top of the Tabernacle at Assisi

1987: JPII bows his head respectfully as he receives a blessing in a pagan American Indian ritual

August 8, 1985, praying with African Animists (witch doctors)

Posing with the Tri-Lateral Commission

In the Buddhist Temple

1993: Cotonou, Africa, entertained by voodoo dance from young women

Benin, 1993: Meeting with Voodoo "high priest"

Kissing the ring of Rowan Williams, the head of the Anglican sect

Upside down cross

Praying at the Wailing Wall for forgiveness from the Jews

Broken Cross

1983: Speaking at Lutheran temple in honor of 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s birth

• Speech to the Muslims from the Mosque: "It is in mosques and churches that the Muslim and Christian communities shape their religious identity... What sense of identity is instilled in young Christians and young Muslims in our churches and mosques? It is my ardent hope that Muslim and Christian religious leaders and teachers will present our two great communities in respectful dialogue, never more as communities in conflict" (L’Osservatore Romano CD-Rom, Year 2001, Speech of John Paul II from the mosque, May 6, 2001).

• BROKEN CROSS: used by black magicians and sorcerers in the sixth century to represent the Biblical term “mark of the beast.” Satanists in the fifth and sixth centuries, as well as black magicians and sorcerers of the Middle Ages (476-1453), used such figurines to represent their hatred for Christianity. The fact that the broken cross was used for occult purposes can be seen in the Museum of Witchcraft in Bayonne, France.164

• “It is illicit for Catholics in any way to assist actively or take part in sacred worship of non-Catholics (c. 1258, §1). Passive or merely material presence, for the sake of civil courtesy, duty, or respect, for a grave reason which in case of doubt should have the approval of the Bishop may be tolerated, at the funerals, weddings, and other such celebrations of non-Catholics, provided there is no danger of perversion or of scandal” (c. 1258, §2). Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922)
 

• Jewish maestro Gilbert Levine, telling CNN’s Larry King about John Paul II:

KING: “The pope congratulated your children's bar mitzvahs?”
LEVINE: “Not only congratulate us, he sent us a menorah.”
KING: “He sent you a menorah?”
LEVINE: “He gave it to us, actually, didn't send it. Actually gave us a menorah. I think it's from the 16th century in Prague. It's the most beautiful menorah. He sent a letter on the occasion of each of my son's bar mitzvahs. He also had the cardinal in charge of Catholic/Jewish relations send a letter that was read out in my Orthodox shul on the occasion of my son's recent bar mitzvah, and the rabbi read it as if it were from a rabbi” (www.cnn.com, archives of Larry King Live show, April 4, 2005).
 

A celebration of the second anniversary of John Paul’s death was celebrated in Wadowice, southern Poland. Much controversy has arisen over a picture that appeared in a bonfire during the ceremony. One must ask why—instead of appearing in a white light—that he was surrounded in flames.