How Did Pope John Paul II Change The World

Back in the time when Peter was still alive, God’s son had a close relationship with him. They were so close that the Roman Catholic Church interpreted the Bible as that God founded his church on top of Peter, which as a result made Peter the first Pope in history. The Catholics kept the tradition of Popedom till the time of present. Despite the fact that the Roman Catholic Church was fairly corrupted and turned away from the truth of God, Fr. Karol Josef Wojtyla, otherwise known as Pope John Paul II, lived out the Gospel and done good works in the world. He, as the pope, had changed the opinion of so many non-Christians towards Christianity. Thus we can see from Pope’s personality shown to the world and what he has done during his popedom, he was a true hero for he has changed the face of …show more content…
Catholicism has been a branch of Christianity that weighs traditions too much rather the Bible itself. Nevertheless, Pope John Paul II altered people’s opinion significantly. First of all, he was the first Pole to be elected as the pope, or rather he has been the first person to be elected as pope that was born outside of Italy in past 400 years. At the age of 58 he was also the youngest pope as he succeeded Pope John Paul I who was assassinated after merely 33 days in office. These facts actually showed that the traditions that weren’t in the Book does not exceed the Book itself. After taking over in 1983, Wojtyla set one of his aims to be defeating Communism in his home town Poland, which practiced persecution of Christianity. He also started the centralization of Roman Catholic Church. He intervened in appointing a vicar for the Christian Society after the lethal illness of the powerful general, Pedro Arrape, and his negative stance toward liberation of theology. His humor