Animated video on John Paul II aims to evangelize youth

In honour of the canonization of St John Paul II, audiovisual resource page Catholic Link has created an animated video detailing the profound spiritual life of the Saint with the hope of reaching youth.

May 22, 2014

ROME: In honour of the canonization of St John Paul II, audiovisual resource page Catholic Link has created an animated video detailing the profound spiritual life of the Saint with the hope of reaching youth.

“With the video we try to tell people and share his life, but in a way that really emphasizes this central point…what the core, the nucleus of all of this was his relationship with Christ,” said Garrett Johnson.

Johnson is the administrator for the English page of Catholic Link, which also has editions in Spanish and Italian, and has been living in Rome for the past two years studying philosophy.

Entitled St John Paul II: the Life of a Holy Pope, the video was launched by the site May 13 in all three languages.

What we try to do is we look in various channels for videos that can be religious or they can be secular without any specific religious content, but videos that can speak to the youth today and that have a message.”

Having had roaring success with a video they produced about Pope Francis following his election to the Seat of Peter, Johnson explained that when they first heard St John Paul II was to be canonized, “we knew we had to do something about it.”

“The most important part about John Paul II wasn’t only the fact that he did a lot of trips, that he spoke to a lot of people, that he was very famous, that he had a political role to play in communism and all these kinds of things,” he continued.

“The most important part and to really understand who he was you have to understand his relationship with Christ. So with the video we try to tell people and share his life, but in a way that really emphasizes this central point.”

Explaining that the video was crafted and edited by a young Ecuadorian man named Canva Ma who is currently studying digital animation, Johnson noted that he is “a very talented guy who has offered his gifts to help us out with this project.” --dfw

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