| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) and index. |
| 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 -- Milennium 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. |
| Subject |
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
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John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005. |
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Popes -- Biography.
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Popes -- Biography. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0385514840 alkaline paper |
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