Dubbed “The travelling pope” Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005) was the first non-Italian head of the Catholic Church in 455 years. As a Pope John Paul II, he undertook more pastoral trips than all of his predecessors combined. His revolutionary teachings about human dignity encouraged nations to rebel against autocratic regimes, such as in his homeland of Poland. He saw Europe as a “union of nations” built on spiritual and economic grounds.
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