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October 22: ST. JOHN PAUL II: Be Not Afraid
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St. John Paul II was shot in St. Peter's Square — and two years later, he sat in a prison cell forgiving the man who tried to kill him. Shaped by devastating loss in his youth and years of secret seminary study under Nazi occupation, Karol Wojtyła became pope and spent twenty-six years telling the world not to be afraid. After surviving an assassination attempt, he entrusted the moment entirely to Mary and personally forgave his attacker face to face, hand in hand. "Be not afraid." Want to keep living John Paul's story aft...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's October 22nd, so join us for St. John Paul II. Be not afraid. The cell of the Roman prison was small and plain. White walls, a metal chair, a table.
Pope John Paul II sat across from the man who had shot him. This man had fired two bullets into the Pope in St. Peter's Square two years earlier, and he had done so in front of thousands of people. The Pope had nearly died on the operating table. Now he was here in this cell, and he had asked the guards to step back so that he could speak privately
to this man. He took the man's hand in his, and he spoke quietly. He had already forgiven his would-be assassin, but he had come to say so in person. The man looked at the Pope and whispered, why aren't you dead? I don't understand.
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