Catholics often talk about the “John Paul II Generation.”
The phrase applies to many Catholics of a certain age, but particularly to priests who saw in the charismatic Polish pope a model of what it means to be a priest in the contemporary world.
Perhaps to a lesser degree (it was a much shorter pontificate, for one thing) there is also a “Benedict XVI generation” of priests, whose theology liturgical style reflects the example set during that pontificate.
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