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The Legacy of Pope John Paul II: The Central Teaching of His 14 Encyclical Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Popes are the Church’s chief shepherds. While some focused on governing the Church and addressing challenges from the world, others recognized their primary responsibility to proclaim and teach the Gospel. Alan Schreck calls these the “teaching popes” and John Paul II was such a pope, leading the Church and impacting the world with his witness and his teaching. The encyclical letter has been, in...

the Apostles and to their successors, with the special assistance of the Spirit of truth: “He who hears you hears me” (Lk. 10:16). By the light and the strength this Spirit the Apostles carried out their mission of preaching the Gospel and of pointing out the “way” of the Lord (cf. Acts 18:25), teaching above all how to follow and imitate Christ: “For to me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). (25.2; bold emphasis mine) The second chapter of Veritatis Splendor focuses on the challenges
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