JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II at Assisi Prayer Meeting

Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Pope John Paul II is pictured during a 1986 interfaith prayer gathering in the Italian town of Assisi. (CNS file photo/KNA)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II visits Paris, 1980

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

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Pope John Paul II gestures during his 1980 visit to Paris, France. (CNS photo/Catholic Press Photo)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II visits Australia, 1986

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

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Pope John Paul II holds a koala bear during his 1986 visit to Australia. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II visits Poznan, Poland

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

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Pope John Paul II waves to the throngs of people gathered for Mass in Poznan during his 1983 visit to Poland. Visiting seven cities, the pontiff defended Poland’s right to sovereignty and demanded political reforms. He offered support to Polish bishops who were defending human rights under martial law and urged fellow Poles to find […]

JP II, We Love You – World Youth Day Toronto, 2002

Sunday, April 13, 2014

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Pope John Paul II waves to young pilgrims during World Youth Day in Toronto July 25, 2002. (CNS photo/Arturo Mari)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II visits Indonesia, 1989

Friday, April 11, 2014

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Pope John Paul II kisses a rain-soaked tarmac as he arrives in Jakarta, Indonesia, on a pastoral trip in 1989. (CNS file photo)

JP II, We Love You – Urbi et Orbi blessing Easter, 1993

Thursday, April 10, 2014

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Pope John Paul II delivers his “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world) message on Easter in 1993. (CNS photo from L’Osservatore Romano)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Ratzinger

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in this photo dated Oct. 22, 1978. Twenty-seven years later, this photo captured by a L’Osservatore Romano photographer would take on special significance with Cardinal Ratzinger’s election as Pope Benedict XVI. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

JP II, We Love You – Pope John Paul II, Senegal 1992

Monday, April 7, 2014

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Pope John Paul II stands on the threshold of a former slave-trade depot on Goree Island during his 1992 trip to Senegal. The Polish pontiff and Blessed John XXIII will become saints in a ceremony presided by Pope Francis April 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)

JP II, We Love You – U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy greets Pope John Paul II

Sunday, April 6, 2014

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U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy greets Pope John Paul II, as Rosalyn Carter, wife U.S. President Jimmy Carter, looks on, during the pope’s arrival in Boston in 1979. (CNS file photo)