Exhibit Highlights St. John Paul II's US Visits, Esteem for Nation's Foundational Documents

Exhibit highlights St John Paul II's US visits

An exhibit at the St John Paul II National Shrine in Washington on display through 9 September celebrates St John Paul II's esteem for the nation's foundational documents – the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Exhibit highlights St. John Paul II's US visits, esteem for nation's foundational documents

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — In his seven visits to America during his papacy, St. John Paul II often shared his mastery of the nation’s foundational documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy greets St. John Paul II, as first lady Rosalyn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter, looks on, during his arrival in Boston in 1979. During his papacy, St. John Paul made seven visits to the Un…

Exhibit highlights St. John Paul II’s US visits, esteem for nation’s foundational documents

The exhibit includes audio and video, photos and artifacts from his visits, including the future pope's trip to America for its bicentennial in 1976.

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Exhibit Highlights St. John Paul II's US Visits, Esteem for Nation's Foundational Documents National, World | 07/15/2026 By: OSV News Shrine exhibit marking America’s 250th anniversary traces the pope’s decades of invoking the Declaration, the Constitution, and Lincoln Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Kraków, Poland, who later…

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America at 250: St. John Paul II's admiration for American foundational documents on exhibit at national shrine through Sept. 9 - The Dialog

WASHINGTON — In his seven visits to America during his papacy, St. John Paul II often shared his mastery of the nation’s foundational documents — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. “(He) really was a genius at researching and understanding,” Grattan Brown, the director of mission and ministry at the St. John Paul II National Shrine, told OSV News. The message, reaffirmed in several ways, was that Americans …