One hundred years after Pope Leo wrote his famous prayer, another pope — while not ordering a reinstatement of the prayer after Mass – asked all Catholics to re-embrace this plea to the Prince of Angels. In 1984, during the International Year of the Family, John Paul II warned that the fate of humanity was in grave danger and called on Catholics to pray the prayer daily, to overcome the forces of darkness and evil in the world.
St. JPII sought return to Prayer to St. Michael
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