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Location changed to Oasis. Benedict and John Paul endured persecution and hostility from the two authoritarian disasters, Nazism and Communism. They overcame their countries’ hostility to forge friendship and collaboration through their joint defense of human dignity at Vatican II and in the years thereafter. Their friendship provided the foundation for their theologies of human personhood and the centrality of Jesus Christ, profoundly affecting the modern Church in its understanding of human rights, faith, and freedom.
Father Christopher Zugger is a graduate of Saint Bonaventure University and Washington Theological Union and was ordained in 1981. He served as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Rite Catholic Church in Albuquerque from 1985-2008. He is the author of The Forgotten: Catholics in the Soviet Empire; Finding a Hidden Church; Looking to Tomorrow: The History and Mission of the Byzantine Catholic Church; and a forthcoming book on Catholics in the Soviet Gulag.