Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Written by George Weigel
Narrated by Sam Tsoutsouvas
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""A remarkable book. Weigel's biography is likely to remain the standard one-volume reference on John Paul II for many years to come."" — Pittsburg Post-Gazette
?“Fascinating. . . sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone.” —New York Times Book Review
The definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today
Witness to Hope is the authoritative biography of one of the singular figures—some might argue the singular figure—of our time. With unprecedented cooperation from John Paul II and the people who knew and worked with him throughout his life, George Weigel offers a groundbreaking portrait of the Pope as a man, a thinker, and a leader whose religious convictions defined a new approach to world politics—and changed the course of history. As even his critics concede, John Paul II occupied a unique place on the world stage and put down intellectual markers that no one could ignore or avoid as humanity entered a new millennium fraught with possibility and danger.
The Pope was a man of prodigious energy who played a crucial, yet insufficiently explored, role in some of the most momentous events of our time, including the collapse of European communism, the quest for peace in the Middle East, and the democratic transformation of Latin America. With an updated preface, this edition of Witness to Hope explains how this “man from a far country” did all of that, and much more—and what both his accomplishments and the unfinished business of his pontificate mean for the future of the Church and the world.
George Weigel
George Weigel is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Catholic Church and the author of the New York Times bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. He is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and a consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5wonderful book about a wonderful man, definitely worth a listen
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Erroneous, full of lies, jp2 wasn’t a Christian, nor a catholic and neither a pope, but a degenerate criminal of a terrorist organization of pedos, abusers, drug sellers, sodomites and murderers
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Witness to Hope; the Biography of John Paul II. George Weigel. 1999. I have never finished a book and wanted to start re-reading it, but this is what happened when I finished this book! I started reading it last spring when I watched a biographical movie on John Paul on EWTN. The fact that I read a few chapters and then stopped for a month of so has nothing to do with the subject or the author. It was just me. The book was over 900 pages and needed an occasional break. Weigel is a wonderful writer and the Lord knows, John Paul II is an awesome subject! And it is so much more than the life story of John Paul, II. It is a history of our modern world since the beginning of WWI, and it is so readable! My biggest regret is that my non-Catholic friends who like to read history won’t read this because the will think it just about a pope. Instead of starting to re-read it, I ordered the sequel, The End and the Beginning!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An incredible story about one of the most important people of the last century. 3 stars because I felt that it got a little repetitive near the end and came a little close to hagiographic.
Also - I found the audiobook version quite engaging and easy to follow. I think that reading it would have been a challenge. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book sounds almost evangelical in its presentation of the Gospel. If one did not know how devout a Maryologist JPII was, you would not see it in this book. JPII set out to be a unifier of Christians, and so wrote in a popular vein that is highly attractive to non-Roman Catholics. Some of the details of his life are glossed over and slight misdirections are presented as facts. Still, an excellent work.