The pontiff in winter : triumph and conflict in the reign of John Paul II / John Cornwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornwell, John, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.

John Paul.

Popes--Biography.

Popes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, 2004.

Summary:

Always respectful of Pope John Paul IIUs prodigious spirit and unrelenting battles for human rights and religious freedom, John CornwellQa close, trusted observer of the VaticanQraises serious questions about a system that grants lifetime power to an individual vulnerable to the vicissitudes of aging and illness.

Contents:

Close encounters

Stagestruck

Eternal city

Professor and pastor

Bishop and cardinal

Combating communism

Signs of contradiction

"Be not afraid!"

Universal pastor

Assassination and Fatima

Back on the road

Poland and the fall of communism

John Paul, saints, and scientists

John Paul's conflict with democrary

Pluralism and the pope

Women

Sexology and life

Millennium fever

Ufficioso and Ufficiale

Patient pope

To the holy land

Third secret of Fatima

Jubilee theatricals

Contrition and the Jews

Are you saved?

Who runs the church?

9/11

Sexual abuse scandal

John Paul and AIDS

Founding fathers

John Paul and the Iraq war

John Paul's decline

Mel Gibson's The passion

George W. Bush and John Paul

John Paul's grand design.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) and index.

ISBN:

0385514840

OCLC:

56526990

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