JOHN PAUL II’S LIFE
PRIEST, EVANGELIST, POET, PROTECTOR OF THE POOR AND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.
Karol Josef Wojtyla was born on May 18th , 1920, in Wadowice, in Poland . His mother was Emilia Kaczorowska and his father was an Army officer and a strict Catholic.
He was a child when his mother died during the time that she was giving birth to his sister in 1929. Some years later, his brother died too.
In 1938 he went to Literature and Philosophy College. Wojtyla had to choose between two loves: The theater and the church.
In 1941 his father died during the Second World War (1939 – 1945), when Germany occupied Poland. Karol had to interrupt his studies and worked and went to work in a factiory.
In 1946 he became priest. He was also a poet and playwright. As a priest he was a pastor to youth but also a writer and thinker.
In 1948 he started his doctorate in Philosophy. In 1958 the pope Pius XII designated him as auxiliary Archbishop of Cracow, Poland. In 1964 he became Archbishop and in 1967 he is designated Cardinal.
In 1978 de became the 264th Pope and, to honor his antecessor, he adopted the name John Paul II.
He was the first non-Italian pope after 456 years. John Paul took the papacy on the road. He was the most photographed public figure of his era. After surviving, in 1981, an assassination attempt, John Paul forgave, Mehmet Ali Agca, that was the man that tried to assassinate him.
In 1983, John Paul promised the world’s Catholics that his papacy was for them, and to prove it he continued to travel constantly and prayed to millions of people all over the globe.
On April 2nd, 2005, the Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the Vatican’s under secretary of State, declared: “The Holy Father returned to the house of the Father.” There was a silence at Saint Peter Square. John Paul II died in his private room at 9:37 p.m.
"In the designs of God there aren’t coincidences,” he said in 1982, on the first anniversary of the assassination attempt. He became the most attractive human being and one of the great shapers of contemporary history.
Now we have a new Pope. He is German and adopted the name Benedict XVI. He has a hard task because John Paul II changed the contemporary world and each person wants to know what he thinks about the world and what he is preparing for the world.
Adapted from Newsweek Magazine, April 11th,2005 and Folha de São Paulo Newspaper , April 3rd , 2005
Vocabulary:
Faith: fé
was born: nasceu
giving birth: dando a luz
Second World War: 2ª Guerra Mundial
Priest: padre
Playwright: escritor de peças
Youth: Juventude
Archbishop: Arcebispo
under secretary: sub secretario
Holy Father: Santo Padre
human being: Ser humano
shapers: transformador
A – Exercises about the text
01. What are the adjective pronouns that you can find In the text?
What are they referring to? Explain each one.
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02. Are there adjectives? Give five examples.
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03. What verbal tenses can we find in this text? Can you list them? Give examples.
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04. Are there verbs in the past tense? Are they regular or irregular? Give examples.
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05. Are there objective pronouns? If you say “Yes”, what are they?
What are they referring to? Explain each one.
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