Pope John Paul II quotes

“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.”

— Pope John Paul II

“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”

— Pope John Paul II

“The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?”

— Pope John Paul II

“There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.”

— Pope John Paul II

“War is a defeat for humanity.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.”

— Pope John Paul II

“You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.”

— Pope John Paul II