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On Sep. 1, 1939, ...
Germany invaded poland
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When was Karol Wojtyla born?
May 18, 1921
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Karol's youth nickname was... and he played...
Lolek... soccer
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Who died in Karol's early life? (2)
Mother and brother Edmund
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Who is the "most powerful icon of hope"?
Virgin Mary
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T/F Poland is the most intensely Catholic country in the world
True
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Karol describes his home as his first...
seminary
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After WWI which European nation had the highest Jewish population?
Poland
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What two cultural elements did Lolek fall in love with?
Language and religion
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What was Karol's major in college?
(Polish) literature
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Which country attacked Poland from the east while the Nazis attacked from the west?
USSR
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Which group of people did the Nazis send to concentration camps first?
Intellectuals
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What job does Karol pick up under the Nazi occupation?
Assistant dynamiter in a limestone quarry
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How many Poles were killed in WWII?
Approx 3 million
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If the Nazis were to demoralize Poland, what did they have to decapitate?
The Church
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How many priests and nuns were sent to concentration camps in Poland?
5,000
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What is a mystic?
Someone whose relationship with God is very close and intimate
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What Catholic mystic did Karol study?
John of the Cross
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One way in which Karol and others resisted the Nazis without fighting...
"underground education" and theater
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The "underground theater" founded by Karol et al was to save Poland's ____
memory
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The anecdote of how Karol resisted the Nazis in the theater group...
Even when the loudspeaker came on, he kept doing his part
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The power of the ____ can stop evil in the world
word
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What institution saved the most Jewish lives in Poland and Italy during WWII?
the Church
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What event deepens Karol's understanding that God has a plan for him?
He is hit by a German truck, is rescued by a passerby, and doesn't die
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What historic resistance in Poland failed?
Warsaw uprising
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Where did Karol and other Polish seminarians hide during WWII?
At Cardinal Sapieha's private residence
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Why did Poland lose the war twice?
It was occupied by the Germans, and then by the Soviets
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2 ways in which Poland was different from other Soviet occupied nations...
- The Church remained a powerful force
- Poland was nationalistic
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Why does the bishop not allow Karol to join the monastery?
Karol needs to be a social activist - in other words, a priest
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What feast does the Church celebrate on 1 November 1946, the day Karol was made a priest?
All Saints' Day
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What is the center of every human life?
encountering God
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What will Fr. Karol fight against for 40 years?
Communism
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What type of people was Fr. Karol called to serve in his first parish assignment?
Students/intellectuals
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What disappears when Poles under Stalin's rule leave the church building?
sense of community
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What was Fr. Karol creating for people?
A "zone of freedom"
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What familial title did the young people give Fr. Karol?
Uncle
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The Nazis and communists have created a crisis of ___ (2)
ideas and ideals
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How long is Fr. Karol's teaching career, and what does he teach?
24 years, philosophy and ethics
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What starts in 1962?
Vatican II
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How many bishops are summoned to Rome in 1962?
2500
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According for Fr. Karol what had gotten lost that caused so much death in the last century?
Innate dignity of the human person
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What Vatican II document did he help develop?
The Declaration on Religious Freedom
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Nowa Huta was supposed to be a town without ____
church
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When is Bishop Karol made an archbishop?
1963, Krakow
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How many people come to Nowa Huta to dedicate the Ark church?
70,000
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How long was JPI in leadership of the Church?
33 days
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How many years were there Italian popes before JPII?
455
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JPII was elected ________ (date)
16 October 1978
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What does the Pope tell the world not to be?
afraid
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What does JPII tell the Poles to cherish?
spiritual heritage
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What did JPII give back to the Poles during his visit?
Polish identity
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What anticommunist movement was begun in 1980- by a Polish electrician?
Solidarity
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What happened on 13 May 1981?
JPII is shot by Mehmet Acga
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Who did JPII say saved him from death?
Mary
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What 3 things should human life be governed by?
Truth, freedom, justice, love
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JPII tells the world that capitalism must be disciplined by...
morality
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What philosophy does JPII reject?
Marxist
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What year did JPII come to Detroit?
1987
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What theology did JPII reject?
"liberation theology"
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What moral teachings did JPII remain firm on?
Abortion, birth control, homosexuality, women clergy
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The heart of the Papal office is a _____
religious/pastoral
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JPII diagnosed with Parkinson's at...
74
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What two groups does JPII reach out to?
Other religions and the world's youth
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What has JPII personalized for the world like no other religious figure?
spiritual dimension of human existence
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How many gathered in the Philippines for WYD?
7 million
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What is JPII's answer to why young people are so attracted to him?
Holy Spirit
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What has JPII found a link between?
His conversations with God, and his conversations with people (humanity and divinity)
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What cannot be described in words?
the deepest spirituality of a person
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