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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $2.93
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Weigel
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Edition: Updated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 2005
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Reading Level: 1056
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Description: Witness To Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel is as comprehensive a biography of its subject as can be hoped for while the Pope still lives. Weigel, a journalist who came to the Pope's attention after the publication of his book, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, wrote Witness To Hope with his subject's encouragement and assistance. Weigel had unprecedented access to the Pope's correspondence (with, among others, world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev). He reports lengthy conversations with many members of the Pope's inner circle, and he occasionally reveals vivid details of the Pope's daily life (for example, at the beginning of each day, the Pope's adviser's hear moans and groaning from John Paul's solitary prayers in his private chapel). According to Weigel, the Pope told him that other biographies "try to understand me from outside. But I can only be understood from inside." Unfortunately, Weigel's method for understanding the Pope "from inside" depends on psychological conjecture ("It may help to begin by thinking of Karol Wojtyla as a man who grew up very fast") and is weakened by his extreme eagerness to praise his subject ("the man with arguably the most coherent and comprehensive vision of the human possibility in the world ahead"). More troubling, Weigel does not ask some of the really difficult questions about this Pope--regarding his involvement with sects such as Opus Dei, for example, or the relationship between his innovative "theology of the body" and his conservative stance on homosexuality, or even the vicissitudes of prayer life. Witness To Hope is a valuable book because it reports many facts that others have not reported. But for incisive analysis of this Pope's theological and political significance, or for insight into his spiritual life, readers will have to wait until the principals in his life story are free to speak more frankly with some future biographer. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $3.30
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Manufacturer: Gramercy
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Pope John Paul II
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Publisher: Gramercy
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282
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Publication Date: 2002-08-06
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Spiritual father of millions, globally influential leader: Pope John Paul II's words have brought inspiration, solace, and courage to those who have listened. The quotes and prayers collected here are both for the faithful and for those who have been touched by and want to know more about this remarkable man. His words on love, family, truth, freedom, human relationships, the power of God, and the importance of hope and prayer explore what it means to be alive and what we are doing here on Earth, and offer answers to some of life's hardest questions.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $3.96
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pope John Paul II
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Publisher: Knopf
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Edition: reprint of first printing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282
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Publication Date: 1995-09-19
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the profoundest theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering, and evil; about eternal life and the meaning of salvation; about hope; about the relationship of Christianity to other faits and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith.With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is known, John Paul II speaks directly and forthrightly to all people. His message: Be not afraid!
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $16.09
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pope John XXIII
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Publisher: Image
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.0924
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Publication Date: 1999-11-09
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: No other pope of this century has aroused so much interest and universal affection throughout the world as has Pope John XXIII. Journal of a Soul is an inspiring reading experience that records this pope's thoughts and traces his spiritual development from adolescence to the seminary to a career as a priest, a European papal diplomat, Patriarch of Venice, and finally Pope John XXIII.
This Image Books edition features a biographical portrait of Pope John by his personal secretary, Monsignor Loris Capovilla. It also includes several of his most moving prayers, sixty brief thoughts and aphorisms, his "Rules for the Ascetic Life," many of his letters, even his last will and testament. Christians everywhere will welcome the reissue of "one of the most original, interesting, and inspiring revelations of intimate personal experiences ever written," which "ranks well with the classic spiritual autobiographies" (Critic).
Journal of a Soul, the first ever such work from a Roman pontiff, opens new windows onto the soul of the man himself.
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Price: $8.99
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Sale: $4.58
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Manufacturer: Servant Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Healy
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Publisher: Servant Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 233.5
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Publication Date: 2005-07
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Reading Level: 121
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $12.29
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Manufacturer: St. Augustines Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James V. Schall
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Publisher: St. Augustines Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.2
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Publication Date: 2007-04-30
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Reading Level: 176
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $1.75
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 1998-11
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: Rich in humor and culture, passion and love for the cause of God and of man, Milestones is the autobiography of one of the most influential men in the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium. In his famous Apology, Cardinal Newman accounted for his conversion to Catholicism. In this biography, which in certain respects recalls Newman's masterpiece, Ratzinger tells of his family life, the years of the Nazi oppression and of the war, his extraordinary academic path, and his participation in the Second Vatican Council. Illustrated.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $7.33
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Manufacturer: powerHouse Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: powerHouse Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 2005-10-31
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Pope John Paul II: A Life in Pictures is the most extensive—and the most beautifully produced—visual diary ever compiled of Karol Józef Wojtyla, who became one of the most respected religious figures and world leaders of the twentieth century. From his days growing up in the small town of Wadowice, Poland, through his extensive travels around the Christian and non-Christian world to his recent passing, mourned by the faithful worldwide, this astounding collection bears witness to the transformation of Wojtyla from a small child in Poland to the Bishop of Rome, the vicar of Jesus Christ, the patriarch of the West—Pope John Paul II. From his earliest years, we travel alongside Wojtyla from Wadowice with his humble parents to Kraków as an energetic student of literature and philosophy, an actor in an experimental theater troupe, and a poet participating in readings and discussion groups. After World War II, during which he began his religious training in an underground seminary, we watch as Wojtyla was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1946. Pope John Paul II then follows along on the path of his faith as he becomes a chaplain to university students, an archbishop, a cardinal, and finally, the pope. In 1978 Wojtyla, taking the name John Paul II, became the first non-Italian pope since the sixteenth century and the youngest pope in 132 years. Dedicated to Catholics the world over, John Paul II was the most-traveled pope in history, making a point to nurture his flock wherever they could be found. Pope John Paul II follows his extensive trips around the world—including the first papal visit to Auschwitz, with Fidel Castro on his historic tour of Cuba in 1996, and among throngs of admirers throughout Europe and the United States. Seen at the pulpit delivering sermons that gave hope to the destitute with his support of human rights, Pope John Paul II struck fear in the powerful as he condemned autocracies from the U.S.S.R. to Chile. We are also given lesser known but equally powerful moments, such as his visit to forgive the imprisoned Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot him in 1981, and his arrival in Sudan at age seventy-three as he kissed the ground at the Khartoum airport. A special tribute to a life and faith that reached around the world, Pope John Paul II culminates in his passing and the mourning of hundreds of millions around the globe from all faiths and political systems. The most comprehensive and superbly reproduced collection of photographs of the Supreme Pontiff ever compiled, Pope John Paul II provides visual testimony to his life as one of the most admired and revered men in the world.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $7.93
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margherita Marchione::Ph.D. Margherita Marchione
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Although the subject of much controversy among Christians and Jews alike, Pius XII was not insensitive to the plight of the Jews in World War II, but on the contrary did much in his own way to save them. This is the thrust of Dr. Marchione's book, continuing the painstaking research she began in Yours Is a Precious Witness. That was an oral history from Jewish survivors who credit Pius XII with saving them from the Nazis. This new book taps wartime Vatican documents--long available and long ignored--to provide persuasive evidence that the "silent Pope" was working for peace. Her fascinating book makes available for the first time English translations of Vatican documents and wartime correspondence, revealing the Vatican's little-known wartime campaign that saved almost a million Jews. Dr. Marchione incorporates expert analyses and commentaries on the subject, and dozens of photos, appendices, and notes--all to balance what has been till now a very one-sided look at events. Because of its documentary value, this title is must reading by anyone who has an opinion on Pius XII, although each side may find further argument in it. It's also critically important for Church historians, Church leaders, Holocaust scholars, and anyone involved in the Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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Price: $34.99
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Sale: $22.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. A. Markus
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
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Publication Date: 1997-10-13
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Reading Level: 268
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Description: The book is a study of Gregory the Great, the pope who sent Augustine (of Canterbury) and his fellow missionaries to convert the heathen English to Christianity (597). Markus gives a full account of Gregory's life and work, his thought and spirituality, within the setting of the world at the end of the sixth century. At a time of catastrophic change in Europe, Gregory's work as pope stands on the threshold of medieval Western Europe. The book deals with every aspect of his pontificate, providing a major contribution to the study of late antique society.
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