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A life with Karol : my forty-year friendship with the man who became pope / Stanislaw Dziwisz in conversation with Gian Franco Svidercoschi ; translated from the Italian by Adrian J. Walker.

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Van Pelt Library BX1378.5 .D9713 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dziwisz, Stanisław.
Contributor:
Svidercoschi, Gian Franco.
Standardized Title:
Vita con Karol. English
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
John Paul.
Dziwisz, Stanisław--Interviews.
Dziwisz, Stanisław.
Catholic Church.
Bishops--Poland--Interviews.
Bishops.
Catholic Church--Clergy--Interviews.
Clergy.
Poland.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:
xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First American edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Doubleday, [2008]
Contents:
Part One: The Polish years
The first meeting
New men
Turning point: Vatican II
The Millennium crisis
Wyszynski and Wojtyla
The Cross of Nowa Huta
"How could I fail to speak out?"
Dissent Explodes
Rebel youth
"A Slav will be Pope"
Part Two: The Papal years
"Open the doors to Christ"
A journey to anticlerical Mexico
A typical day in the life of a Pope
A sign of change
Peter the Traveler
Rome's own bishop
Earthquake in the Empire
A revolution of the people
Two pistol shots
But who armed the killer?
A whole nation behind bars
Solidarity lives!
A new evangelization
Youth, women, and the Ecclesial Movements
"God's sister" Teresa
And the wall came tumbling down
No to Communism, not yes to Capitalism
The global south
A new adversary
The spirit of Assisi
The new martyrs
It took six hands
John Paul II's Jewish roots
Thou shalt not kill in the name of God
"Let me go home to the Lord".
ISBN:
9780385523745
0385523742
OCLC:
140103859

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