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God's Choice CD: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
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Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/1/2005
ASIN: 006088195X
Retail price: $29.95
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| | <p>George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, <i>Witness to Hope</i>, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With <i>God's Choice</i>, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era.</p> <p>When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray outside his apartment. He had become a father figure to millions in a world bereft of strong paternal examples, and those millions now felt orphaned. After more than twenty-six years of John Paul II's guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age, with its bedrock traditions intact but with pressing issues to address in a volatile and changing world. Beginning with the story of John Paul's final months, <i>God's Choice</i> offers a remarkable inside account of the conclave that produced Benedict XVI as the next pope, drawing on George Weigel's unrivaled access to this complex event.</p> <p>Reflecting on John Paul II's greatness, painting an intimate portrait of the new pope, and boldly assessing the Church's current condition, <i>God's Choice</i> is an invaluable book for anyone seeking to understand the Catholic future, and the larger human future the Church will help to shape.</p> | |
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God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
| | <p>George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, <i>Witness to Hope</i>, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With <i>God's Choice</i>, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era.</p> <p>When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray outside his apartment. He had become a father figure to millions in a world bereft of strong paternal examples, and those millions now felt orphaned. After more than twenty-six years of John Paul II's guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age, with its bedrock traditions intact but with pressing questions to address in a rapidly changing world. Beginning with the story of John Paul's final months, <i>God's Choice</i> offers a remarkable inside account of the conclave that produced Benedict XVI as the next pope, drawing on George Weigel's unrivaled access to this complex event.</p> <p>Weigel also incisively surveys the current state of the Church around the world: its thriving populations in Africa, Latin America, and parts of the post-communist world; its collapse in western Europe; its continued struggles in Asia; and the vibrancy of many aspects of Catholic life in the United States, even as the Church in America struggles to overcome its recent experience of scandal.</p> <p>Reflecting on John Paul II's greatness, drawing on firsthand interviews to paint an intimate portrait of the new Pope, and boldly assessing the Church's current condition, <i>God's Choice</i> is an invaluable book for anyone seeking to understand the Catholic future and the larger human future the Church will help to shape.</p> | |
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Pope John Paul II: Reaching Out Across Borders (Reuters Prentice Hall Series on World Issues)
| | In this book, Reuters correspondents bring together fresh, unique, and first-hand insights about Pope John Paul II, a vivid portrait of him as a man -- and a realistic, forward-looking assessment of his achievements, his legacy, and the Church he leaves to his successors. You will meet the man who, before joining the priesthood, was an athlete, an actor, a soldier, a stonecutter, and a published poet - who changed history by taking on Communism in Poland, then later denounced the spiritual impoverishment of untrammeled capitalism - who transformed the Church's tortured relationship with the Jewish community. You will meet the moral conservative and reformer who led the Church into its third millennium, watching him face storms of debate and scandal within his church, as he carries its message of faith to every corner of the world, and presides over its explosive growth throughout the developing world. This is the only book on Pope John Paul II to draw upon the extraordinary global resources of Reuters, the world's leading news agency. Notable amongst those resources: Vatican correspondent Philip Pullella, a world-renowned expert on Pope John Paul II who organized Reuters' highly-successful exhibition of Reuters photographs of the Pope that has been traveling through Europe and will appear throughout the United States to coincide with this book's publication. | |
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John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
| | <B>From <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Peggy Noonan comes "a beautifully written testimony about . . . the most historically recognized pope" (<I>Library Journal</I>)</B> <BR><BR> With such accla imed books as <I>When Character Was King</I>, Peggy Noonan has become one of our most eloquent and respected commentators. Now she offers a stirring portrait of a spiritual and intellectual giant who personally confronted all of the worst tragedies of his age. Drawing on scholarship, interviews with prominent Catholics, and her own experience, Noonan traces the extraordinary life and struggles of Pope John Paul II with characteristic insight and probityand explores how much we can learn from his leadership, diplomacy, humility, and holiness. Passionate and often deeply personal, <I>John Paul the Great</I> is as exceptional as the man it celebrates. | |
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Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085
| | The reign of Pope Gregory VII (1073-85) is critically important in the history of the medieval Church and Papacy. This original and authoritative study, the first for over fifty years, records the remarkable career of the Pope who started life as a humble clerk of the Roman church, gave his name to the Gregorian Reforms, and finally died in exile at Salerno. His reign prepared the way for an age of strong papal monarchy throughout medieval Europe. | |
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The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965
| | Pope Pius XII neither caused the Holocaust nor did it lay within his reach to halt it. Why then is he the center of controversy Why do writers want to make him either a saint or sinner Rolf Hochuth demonized Pius XII in his famous play, "The Deputy". Outraged, apologists then rushed to defend the pope, not infrequently overreaching themselves in his justification. Above and beyond this controversy, why does the question of Christianity and the Holocaust still grip us at the beginning of a new century and millennium One suspects that we who live today in a post-Holocaust world yearn for a champion - a martyr who would have been ready to risk all in defiance of Hitler. No person of stature ever did this - not Pius XII, not anyone else. Throwing the spotlight relentlessly on Pius XII has skewed the question surrounding Catholicism and the Holocaust, depriving us of a record of what the entire church did or did not do. Such a record is provided for the first time in the first half of "The Catholic Church and the Holocaust". European bishops displayed a shocking disparity in their attitudes toward Jews and in their bearing during the Holocaust. On the positive side, the record of those who tried to help Jews is filled with the names of ordinary Christians, people of the pulpit and pews, among them many outstanding women. The Holocaust ended in 1945 but the Catholic Church did not come to terms with the Shoah until 1965. How this occurred is a story worth telling. Those who perpetrated the Holocaust committed suicide at the end of the war, or were tried and executed after it, or vanished into obscurity. But the men and women who resisted the Holocaust lived on after it to help bring an end to the church's equivocal stand on antisemitism. Theirs was a rich heritage that culminated in the Second Vatican Council's affirmation of the permanence of the covenant between God and his Chosen People. | |
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