After becoming professor of the Chair of Ethics at the University of Lublin (Poland), the young Karol Wojtyła would participa- te in the notable and ambitious project of reformulating Enlightenment ideals undertaken by a group of professors from the Department of Phi- losophy who viewed the French Enlightenment as a milestone to be surpassed and es...
The article is about the arthropology of the masculinity and feminity from the experience of the body and the experience of the original solitude, according to John Paul II’s analysis of his Catechesis on human love. So from the experience of the sexed body, we can get the understanding of communal framework on sexual difference. Male and female ex...
Aware of the rupture between faith and culture typical of modernity, Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II took on the challenge of re-Christianizing society and culture through a per-sonalist and transcendent anthropology, with deep Christocentric roots, on which he built a philosophical system that nurtured multiple facets of human action, in particular, th...
Este trabajo gira en torno a la visión personalista del acto conyugal de Wojtyla (san Juan Pablo II), que acomodó a su labor catequística durante los 26 años de su pontificado. Las conclusiones a las que llegó en el aspecto moral están en concordancia con la doctrina secular de la Iglesia Católica, pero en otras cuestiones se abre a notables innova...
Between 1994 and 1999 the Catholic church promoted five special synods, one for each Continent of the Earth: Africa, America, Asia, Oceania and Europe. On June, 28, 2003, Pope John Paul II promulgated the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa, addressed to the whole European Community in order to illustrate the results of the Synod ...
This article aims to describe what were the main events that helped transform Poland, from a People's Republic ruled by communism to a free and democratic society. Poland has thirty years of freedom integrated into the European Union and NATO and its young generations do not imagine a life different from that of values marked by democracy. This wor...
John Paul II has witnessed one of the most dramatic periods in the history of humanity. He experienced in the first person —even as a victim— the gigantic power that evil can acquire in the world and whose most serious consequence has been the death of millions of human lives. World wars, fratricidal wars, totalitarianisms, abortions, abuses, eutha...
This research work seeks to highlight the influence that the great Span-ish mystic St. John of the Cross has had on the work of Karol Wojtyła-John Paul II,how Wojtyla met the Spanish mystic through Tyranowski and the influx found in Wojtyla’s PhD work. St John’s of the Cross authority and influence forges Wo-jtyla’s "style of thinking", which matur...
Saint John Paul II in his letter addressed to artists made a call to those who have this special vocation towards beauty, as he conceived art as the good that saves, as “a bridge towards religious experience”, as the means that by transforming matter allows souls to open to the sense of the eternal and that leads them to God. Art then becomes a voc...
Remembering St John Paul II in the centenary of his birth is not just about bringing him back to our memories, but it is about interpreting a living heri-tage that is present among us. We need to know how to extract all the life out of the inheritance he left us. His legacy has a clear sense of wisdom that advocates an inner conviction and becomes ...
