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End and the Beginning, The: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
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By George Weigel
“As March gave way to April in the spring of 2005 and the world kept vigil outside the apostolic palace in Rome, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, then drawing to a poignant end, was already being described as one of the most consequential in two millennia of Christian history.”
With these words, George Weigel begins his sequel to
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
. More than ten years in the making,
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
tells the dramatic story of the Pope’s battle with communism in light of new and recently disclosed information and brings to a close Weigel’s portrait of a man who not only left an indelible mark on the Catholic Church, but also changed the course of world history.
When he was elected pope in the fall of 1978, few people had ever heard of the charismatic Karol Wojtya. But in a very short time, he would ignite a revolution of conscience in his native Poland that would ultimately lead to the collapse of European communism and death of the Soviet Union. What even fewer people knew was that the KGB, the Polish Secret Police, and the East German Stasi had been waging a dangerous, decades-long war against Wojtya and the Vatican itself. Weigel, with unprecedented access to many Soviet-era documents, chronicles John Paul’s struggle against the dark forces of communism.
Moreover, Weigel recounts the tumultuous last years of John Paul’s life as he dealt with a crippling illness as well as the “new world disorder” and revelations about corruption within the Catholic Church. It concludes with an assessment of a man who lived his life as a witness to hope in service to the Christian ideals he embraced
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s foremost commentators on issues of religion and public life. A
Newsweek
contributor and Vatican analyst for NBC News, Weigel is the author of fifteen books, including the
New York Times
bestseller
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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