Senate Resolution 32 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2   BY  JOHNSON, ANGELO, BEALL, BEHN, BLACK, BOETTGER,
  1  3   BOLKCOM, BRUNKHORST, CONNOLLY, COURTNEY, DANIELSON,
  1  4  DEARDEN, DOTZLER, DVORSKY, FRAISE, GASKILL, GRONSTAL,
  1  5      HAHN, HANCOCK, HATCH, HORN, HOUSER, IVERSON,
  1  6  KETTERING, KIBBIE, KREIMAN, LAMBERTI, LARSON, LUNDBY,
  1  7   McCOY, McKIBBEN, McKINLEY, MILLER, MULDER, PUTNEY,
  1  8  QUIRMBACH, RAGAN, RIELLY, SCHOENJAHN, SENG, SEYMOUR,
  1  9 SHULL, STEWART, TINSMAN, WARD, WARNSTADT, WIECK, WOOD,
  1 10                    ZAUN, and ZIEMAN
  1 11 A Resolution posthumously honoring His Holiness Pope
  1 12    John Paul II and commemorating his life's work.
  1 13    WHEREAS, in 1978, the Bishop of Krakow, Poland,
  1 14 Karol Wojtyla, was elected as Pope of the Roman
  1 15 Catholic Church, taking the name John Paul II; and
  1 16    WHEREAS, the odyssey of his papacy covered more
  1 17 than 104 overseas trips to over 130 countries,
  1 18 covering almost 690,000 miles and lasting more than a
  1 19 quarter of a century, making Pope John Paul II the
  1 20 widest=traveled Pope in history, and one of the
  1 21 longest=serving; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, on October 4, 1979, in response to an
  1 23 invitation from the late Bishop Maurice Dingman and
  1 24 rural Truro farmer Joe Hays, that odyssey brought him
  1 25 to Iowa; and
  1 26    WHEREAS, on that date some 380,000 people crowded
  1 27 into Living History Farms on the outskirts of Des
  1 28 Moines; and
  1 29    WHEREAS, the Pope then celebrated a two=and=one=
  1 30 half=hour mass and delivered a homily praising farmers
  2  1 and telling them, "You who are farmers today are
  2  2 stewards of a gift from God ... You have the potential
  2  3 to provide food for the millions who have nothing to
  2  4 eat and thus to help rid the world of famine"; and
  2  5    WHEREAS, for the next 25 years the Pope continued
  2  6 his travels, promoting peace and the dignity of human
  2  7 life and championing the cause of human rights,
  2  8 particularly the rights of children; and
  2  9    WHEREAS, Pope John Paul II was an ecumenical pope,
  2 10 reaching out to Protestant and Orthodox denominations;
  2 11 and
  2 12    WHEREAS, Pope John Paul II sought to engage in
  2 13 dialogue with other world faiths, becoming the first
  2 14 pope to visit a Jewish synagogue since the age of
  2 15 Peter, and in 2001 becoming the first pope to enter an
  2 16 Islamic mosque, and later placing a handwritten prayer
  2 17 in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; and
  2 18    WHEREAS, after a lifetime of service to humanity
  2 19 and devotion to God, Pope John Paul II died on
  2 20 Saturday, April 2, 2005; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 21    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2 22 honors the memory and lifework of Pope John Paul II
  2 23 and on behalf of its members expresses heartfelt
  2 24 condolences on his death.
  2 25 LSB 3536SS 81
  2 26 jr:rj/sh/8