John Paul II and the purification of the historical memory in the jubilee of year 2000

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Fernando Alves de Sousa

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It presents a synthesis of the thesis of the author’s master’s degree that looks to recompose the trajectory of the “Day of Forgiveness”realized in the year 2000 during the celebrations of the Jubilee - under the perspective of its promoter and idealizer, that is, as a specific gesture of John Paul II. The Journey, known as a gesture of purification of the memory, would have been matured in the heart of Karol Wojtyla from his experiences as a son of Poland and son of the Council. His election to pontificate and the occasion of the “Great Jubilee” of the year 2000 made possible the realization of the “mea culpa”, not without prior justifying historically and theologically the opportunity and orthodoxy of the gesture.

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Alves de Sousa, F. (2016). John Paul II and the purification of the historical memory in the jubilee of year 2000. Brasiliensis, 5(9), 95-124. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128003
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Fernando Alves de Sousa, Centro de Estudos Redemptoris Mater, Brasília

Mestre em Eclesiologia com especialização em História pela Pontificia Università Lateranense de Roma, bacharel em Teologia pelo Centro de estudos Filosófico-Teológicos Redemptoris Mater de Brasília, onde é professor de História da Igreja.

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Alves de Sousa, F. (2016). John Paul II and the purification of the historical memory in the jubilee of year 2000. Brasiliensis, 5(9), 95-124. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128003