{"id":3143,"date":"2011-05-05T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:39:23","slug":"washington-post-op-ed-by-jennifer-fulwiller-how-john-paul-ii-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post “On Faith” column by Jennifer Fulwiller: “How John Paul II Changed my Life”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I read a column in the Jesuit magazine America<\/strong>, written by this woman. I even posted about it here -  A remarkable story; one women's journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She'a a website designer – and now a writer, with a popular blog. I corresponded with her by email several times.<\/p>\n

The whole article is short – 545 words.<\/p>\n

How Pope John Paul II changed my life<\/a> <\/p>\n

The first time I took notice of Pope John Paul II was at his funeral. I was an atheist, as I had been for the duration of his pontificate, and I sat with my husband, a non-practicing Baptist, to watch the coverage. We hadn\u2019t planned to tune in for the event, but both of us were intrigued by the enormous world response.<\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that I found this religion to be imminently reasonable, I still couldn\u2019t convert until I saw some kind of evidence that its doctrines were divinely-guided, as it claimed they were. After months of reading, I discovered the writings of John Paul II, specifically his Theology of the Body. What I found was a counter-cultural, brilliant yet counter-intuitive wisdom like I\u2019d never encountered before.<\/p>\n

******<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have the pleasure of knowing John Paul II while he was alive, yet I am one of thousands — perhaps millions — who has been touched by his legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I read a column in the Jesuit magazine America, written by this woman. I even posted about it here -  A remarkable story; one women's journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic. She'a a website designer – and now a writer, with a popular blog. I corresponded with her by email several times. The whole article is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}