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CỐ GIÁO-HOÀNG GIOAN PHAO-LỒ II
Giáo-Hoàng Gioan Phao-Lồ II qua đời vào ngày 02 tháng 4 năm 2005.
Ngài được nhiều người xem là một vĩ-nhân của thời-đại.
Trong thời-gian Ngài c̣n sống, một trong các việc làm đầy ư nghĩa nhất của Ngài là Ngài đă trung-thực, can-đảm, và thẳng-thắn công-khai nh́n-nhận (ít nhất là vào ngày 12-3-2000) các tội-lỗi mà Giáo-Hội Ky-Tô-Giáo La-Mă đă phạm phải từ trước đến nay.
Nguồn: http://www.religioustolerance.org/popeapo1.htm
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/12/sm.06.html
http://www.catholiclinks.org/sacramentoperdondiadelperdon.htm
http://biblelight.net/pope_to_seek_forgiveness.htm
http://www.remnantofgod.org/nl000327.htm http://www.sacredheart.edu/faithservice/centerforchristianandjewishunderstanding/documentsandstatements/popejohnpauliiasksforforgivenessmarch122000/
http://www.culture-et-foi.com/dossiers/dominus_jesus/gregory_baum.htm
http://www.catholicleague.org/the-jubilee-year-request-for-pardon/
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/meaculpa.htm
http://sachhiem.net/SACHNGOAI/E-SFChronicle.php
http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/bernauer.htm
v.v...
Liên-quan đến các điểm này, Thanh-Thanh đă có làm một bài thơ bằng tiếng Anh (từ năm 1996, bốn năm trước ngày Ngài chính-thức xưng tội) nhan đề Laud to Pope John Paul II:
LAUD TO POPE JOHN PAUL II
On 03-12-2000, Pope John Paul II apologized
for
all the Vatican’s mistakes in the past.
The first version of this poem had been published in
"Who's Who in New Poets" (New York, USA, 1996).
I
laud you for most of the other moral systems detecting
And
for anything true and holy in them not rejecting –
Those
Asian Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist religions,
And
Australian hundreds-of-centuries-old native traditions.
I
commend you on admitting your predecessors misapprehended
The
earth’s form and position for which Galileo contended.
To
deny the roundness and movement of the globe, in error
The
Inquisition persecuted the physicist, inflicted terror!
I
praise you for acknowledging that, without lenience,
In
order to liberate Jerusalem from Islamic obedience,
They
fostered crusades in the European Catholics’name;
But
they had recourse to violence – unworthy of fame!
I
respect you for apologizing, to many a Latin nation,
For
Spanish past roles in South-America Evangelization.
Delegated
by the Church, Spain took advantage of the situation
To
practice cruelly massacre, tyranny, and exploitation!
I
admire you for testifying your anterior ones’ lack of sanity
While
love of one another is the Bible’s thesis of humanity.
They
considered the black-skinned race as of lowest grade;
And
they tolerated, and even encouraged, slave trade!
I
sympathize with your feeling about World War II a sharp pain:
The
Vatican’s cooperation with the Nazis – a dark stain!
I
acclaim your recognition of the processes of Evolution:
Such
reasoning beyond Creation is quite a revolution!
I
extol you rectifying the doctrine of the Virgin Mary:
Whether
body and soul into heavenly glory it does vary.
To
inherit sin – before that conception – she was bound;
To
exclude her from natural death, there is no ground.
I
comprehend your part in seeking Poland’s regime to replace:
Because
you are a Pole above and first of any other race.
I
agree with you that though you tell people not to fear,
You
still must use bulletproof protection in public to appear.
I
love your getting prepared for the century twenty-first:
All
predictions of the near end only mean a frenzy burst!
I’m
sorry for you yielding to the Vietnamese protestation
Of
their own country’s prelacy against your ordination!
I
thank you for teaching Christians to repent of their sin
Committed
in the past by certain Pontiffs and their kin.
Such
lucidity, justice, and courage, of a man capable,
Lets
me believe that you -
the Pope -
is not mistakable!
Phiên-bản đầu tiên của bài này được in trong tuyển-tập "Who's Who in New Poets" (New York, 1996)
Nhưng sau khi Ngài mất đi, người
kế-nhiệm (Giáo-Hoàng Biển Đức XVI)
cũng như các cựu tín-đồ của Ngài đă...
đổi dạ thay ḷng.
Muốn biết sơ qua những ǵ đă xảy ra, xin mời Quư Vị bấm nút "Giáo Hoàng" dưới đây.
Ngoài ra, Giáo-Hoàng Gioan Phao-Lồ II cũng có một số quan-điểm đặc-biệt về Đức Mẹ Maria (xin bấm nút "Maria" dưới đây).