Pope John Paul II came to the birthplace of Solidarity ... has made a point of asserting for at least a year that the Solidarity movement is internally fractured and politically dead.

Historians credit now Saint Pope John Paul II with helping to spur the Solidarity movement in Poland and other grassroots efforts to combat the Soviet Union. Pope John Paul was willing ...

Pope John Paul II invoked the memory of slain civil rights ... and called on them to ”offer their own special solidarity of Christian love to all people who bear the heavy burden of oppression.” ...

We stand in solidarity with the Catholic community as they mourn the loss of this great religious leader. We hope that the tone that Pope John Paul II set for interfaith cooperation and understanding ...

Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, the legendary patron of the Solidarity movement, and the beloved ... were promoted by Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II. And then there is the issue of so-called ...

The following is a list of key dates in the life of Pope John Paul II (born Karol ... off sparks that help establish Solidarity, the first independent labor movement in the Soviet bloc.

The pope and the Reagan administration worked closely to promote the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, John Paul II’s home country, which encouraged citizens to reject communism in the ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV's significance ... inspire the Polish Solidarity movement. Historian John Lewis Gaddis wrote in his account of the Cold War: "When John Paul II kissed the ground at ...

“I am absolutely convinced that without Pope John Paul II, German reunification would ... there would have been no Solidarity movement in Poland. I seriously doubt whether communism would ...