• Capital punishment
• Communism
• War, ending of Vietnam War, and Pope John lived through World War II
• Segregation
• Terrorism stemmed from Politics

Road To Sainthood

• Studied in secret to become a Priest, because the nazi troops did not approve of this.
• When World War II ended, he finished his religious studies at Krakow seminary, and was ordained in 1946
• He reigned as pope for 27 years
• A few weeks after his death, Pope Benedict XVI said he would rush his cantinixation, disregarding the mandatory waiting period
• For his first miracle, Benedict claimed he had cured a French Nun of Parkinson's disease.
• Then a few months later, Sister Marie Simon Pierre claimed she woke up and suddenly was healed after praying to John Paul who also had Parkinson's.
• A group of theologians and doctors and they all agreed it was a miracle because of the intercession and there was no evidence of medicine helping them.
• His beatification was the fastest in modern times, and he would be honored within his own diocese
• Finally for his second miracle Floribeth Mora Diaz said after praying to John Paul she was cured, without medical reasoning, of a brain aneurysm when doctors only have her a month to live.

Feast day/Patronage

• Feast day: October 22
• It is on this day because it is the day of his papal inauguration
• He is the patron saint of family
• He contributed a lot of knowledge and wisdom to the Church's teachings on marriage and family
• An interesting fact about Pope John is that his catonazation was one of the quickest to happen, when it usually takes five years for someone to become a saint.