Compulsory comic – young biography of Karol Wojtyła

The comic book “From Wadowice to Rome” is an excellent signpost how to tell teenagers about the greatness of our Pope. It's hard to get a communicative that can go to young people more...

We urge reaching for a book published in 2006, which has just returned to shelves in bookstores and is gaining popularity again. Interestingly, the comic book was created in France and its authors are Dominique Bar, Louis-Bernard Koch and Guy Lehideux.

White Crow Publishing suggests that this is publication intended for recipients over the age of eight. But it is hard to view this reading as a naive cartoon for the youngest. The message is far from the image of the Pope, which was analysed with cremaries. It is very serious in content and very attractive and ambitious in the form of a book. It moves in an accessible form, but without clichés, a historical-political background, without which it is impossible to realize the seriousness of the pontificate of Saint Pole. This seriousness is besides evidenced by the large work of the tireless pope.

Intellectual acquis

During 26 years the Holy Father made 103 trips outside Italy and gave more than 20 500 homilies and speeches. He wrote 13 encyclicals, many apostolic letters, and 3 books: “To cross the threshold of hope” of 1994, “The Gift and Mystery” of 1996 and “Arise Let’s Go” of 2004. The calculation of the effects of Charles Wojtyla's large work is impressive, but that is not the strength of the comic book.

Its top value is simply a passionate and superb communicative about the pope's pontificate. And much deeper – about God. In a convincing way, authors show how no systems or ideologies have been able to expel God from the human heart. And it is simply a direct appeal to young people by the actual words of the comic book character: “You young people are wonderful, you are just God’s beings. Whoever tries to deny your dignity to the children of God, degrades you!’

A broader position than only the Polish position on papal pilgrimages, which truly saved people's lives, is of extraordinary importance. They were a protest against violence, urging peace in war-torn regions, an excuse to suspend weapons, a cry to defend life from conception.

Comics besides tackles the problem of depravity and decline of morals. He leans over cultural diversity, which was a barrier to the preaching of God’s word. There are questions about the condition of societies and their sensitivity and religiousness: “Is carefree America able to realize that the planet faces the eventual collision of the Church with the antiquity, the Gospel with the anti-evangelice?”

“He launched a peaceful revolution”

The impression is to present a gathering of 12 spiritual communities in Assisi in 1986. The thought of John Paul II brought together 3 billion believers from different religions in 1 place. What was the Pope's openness and wisdom to initiate specified an event. This was not about reconciling dogmas that cannot be reconciled, but about awakening consciences and striving for peace, respect and freedom of all social group and individual.

"All canons must go to the background today. We will not pray together, but we will be together to pray!" the Pope said. The comic book “From Wadowice to Rome” shows the power of the pope who could “start a real peaceful revolution in the world”.

Overcoming Communism

The subject of the exit of Poland and our part of Europe from communism is besides very much shown here – despite the short form. “We are God’s people with peculiar Christian sensitivity... We will proceed to claim our rights, which are as apparent as our existence," he argues in Wojtyła's book.

However, the text and illustrations of the book are primarily designed to show the Pope as a man of close youth. A loving planet and nature, taking care of the physical form, delicate to the needs of young people and above all the large hopes in it. After having already had 2 PhDs, Karol Wojtyła went to a tiny parish close Krakow, he met with the children on the football field. "There is nothing better than a good match after a spiritual lesson," he said.

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