Firstly, St Pope John Paul II changed events and people’s ideas. St Pope John Paul was a voice of right and wrong for the world. He changed both the church and the world in many ways, visiting more than 100 countries over his long career as a pope. St. John Paul II changed many people’s opinion about communism which he ended in many European countries, starting with his hometown Poland. He supported events that led to the political transformation. The new millennium brought a movement in global terrorism. This caused the Pope and his assembled leaders …show more content…
In his time as a Pope, he taught many lessons such as viewing work not as a burden, but as an opportunity. “At times he used the world as a pulpit: in Africa, to decry hunger, in Hiroshima, Japan to denounce the arms race; in Calcutta, India, to praise the generosity of Mother Teresa”. As a pastor of the universal church, he travelled around the world sending messages to 129 countries in 104 trips outside of Italy. In those trips he spoke to each country in their own language until he started to lose momentum by the end of his life. He also pushed the Catholic social teaching into relatively new areas such as bioethics, international economics, racism and ecology. Thirdly, St Pope John Paul II started World Youth Day, which brought millions of young individuals closer together, and these days are continued by the Pope’s successors upto this