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History and Theology of the PapacyThis course surveys the history of the papacy , from the New Testament period up to John Paul II. Broad themes include : the developing understanding of the Petrine office ; the interactions and mutual understandings of the popes and other Christian bishops , both before the schism with Orthodoxy and afterwards ; and the papacy 's changing relation to the civil power , from the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages and up to the modern secular nation-state . '' The Vatican has said the secret the Virgin Mary is said to have told two children more than 80 years ago was a foretelling of the shooting of Pope John Paul II. The Catholic Information Agency announced recently that Pope John Paul II is planning to publish a book of poems with the working title " The Rome Triptych : The Meditations of John Paul II " in Poland later this month . But the starting point is the law on medically assisted fertility passed early last year , under heavy lobbying from the Vatican and Pope John Paul II. To combat the law - which opponents say has sent a stream of couples to fertility clinics elsewhere in Europe - the Italian Radical Party collected more than a million signatures to force a referendum on repealing key sections of the law . Pope John Paul II , the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the U.S. Catholic Bishops have made it clear that our society has other ways to protect itself from those who commit terrible crimes and ought to forgo the use of the death penalty . Reconciliation is one of the key themes which Pope John Paul II has underscored for the days leading up to the start of the Third Millennium . The Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons invited Pope John Paul II to visit them during his current trip in the holy lands . Cathleen Finn declares : " I am really gratified to know that as an Irish-American bisexual woman , the court recognizes my right to take my place among the Irish-American community in the St. Population Fund and Secretary General of the Conference on Population and Development to be held in Cairo this September , was received in March by John Paul II. Although a brief , three-hour visit , the trip was Benedict 's inaugural pastoral pilgrimage and showed he was following in the much-traveled footsteps of his predecessor , Pope John Paul II. " Pope John Paul II said : " This compendium of the Catholic faith , requested by the Bishops gathered in the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod in 1985 , is the most mature and complete fruit of the Council 's teaching and presents it in the rich framework of the whole of ecclesial Tradition .