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On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
Pope Francis
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George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
Chris Matthews
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His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.
Chris Matthews
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[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.
Sylvia Poggioli
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[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.
Lech Walesa
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In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.
Chris Matthews
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
Henry A. Kissinger
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
Vito Fossella
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Solidarity...is a structural value of the social doctrine, as Blessed John Paul II reminded us.
Pope Francis