John XXIII
Pope John XXIII wrote the encyclical Pacem in Terris on peace in the world, and this encyclical has sometimes been re-read and re-interpreted by Christians in the context of politics in the Holy Land.
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“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)