Pope John Paul II, born Karel Wojtyla, was a great philosophical thinker in the Catholic Church, one who did much to develop Catholic thinking in the direction of worldview thinking. The worldview he worked to promote has been described as "Christian Humanism." It is a fundamentally Christ-centered view that emphasizes the intrinsic value and worth of human personhood.
He wrote:
"The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person."
And:
"In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpasssing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence."
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