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The Scriptural Way of the Cross or Scriptural Stations of the Cross is a modern version of the ancient Christian, especially Catholic, devotion called the Stations of the Cross. This version was inaugurated on Good Friday 1991 by Pope John Paul II. The Scriptural version was not intended to invalidate the traditional version.
Pope John Paul II led an annual public prayer of the Stations of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum on Good Friday. Originally, the pope himself carried the cross from station to station, but in his last years when age and infirmity limited his strength, John Paul presided over the celebration from a stage on the Palatine Hill , while others ...
Salvifici doloris ("redemptive suffering") is a February 1984 Apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II. Its theme was suffering in general in the light of the cross and salvific or redemptive suffering in particular. It was issued in connection with the 1983 Holy Jubilee Year of Redemption.
In the traditional scheme of the Stations of the Cross, the final Station is the burial of Jesus. Though this constitutes a logical conclusion to the Via Crucis, it has been increasingly regarded as unsatisfactory [by whom?] as an end-point to meditation upon the Paschal mystery, which according to Christian doctrine culminates in, and is incomplete without, the Resurrection (see, for example ...
Christifideles laici (Ecclesiastical Latin: [kristifiˈdeles ˈla.itʃi]) is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, signed in Rome on December 30, 1988.It is summary of the teaching that arose from the 1987 synod of bishops on the vocation and mission of the laity in the church and the world.
Redemptionis donum (English: The gift of the Redemption) is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, signed on 25 March 1984.. Written at the sole initiative of the Pope, the document speaks of religious consecration in the light of the mystery of Redemption.
The current pope, the report concluded, believed that “that the allegations had already been reviewed and rejected by Pope John Paul II, I, and well aware that McCarrick was active during the ...
Reception of this work of John Paul II range from “With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is well known, John Paul speaks forthrightly to all people” [11] to “the Pope emerges as the master of the flat statement, the bland certainty.