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Weigel, George, 1951-
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John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
Weigel, George, 1951- -- Friends and associates.
Popes -- Biography.
Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
Catholics -- Biography.
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Weigel, George, 1951-
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
Weigel, George, 1951- -- Friends and associates.
Popes -- Biography.
Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
Catholics -- Biography.
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Lessons in hope : my unexpected life with St. John Paul II /
George
Weigel
.
by
Weigel
,
George
,
1951-
Basic Books, c2017.
Call #:
282.092 W419L
Subjects
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
Weigel
,
George
,
1951-
--
Friends
and
associates
.
Popes
--
Biography.
Biographers
--
United States
--
Biography.
Catholics
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780465094295 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 357 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
A dinner of consequence
--
Coincidence and providence
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Lent in the third grade: Baltimore, 1960
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First steps in philosophy: Baltimore, 1969-1973
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Contesting the Council, Toronto, 1973-1975
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Apprentice wordsmith: Seattle, 1975-1984
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Front row seat: New York and Baltimore, October 1979
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In the castle: Washington, 1984-1989
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Cold War endgame: Washington, 1985-1989
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EPPC, diplomacy, and Centesimus annus: Washington and Copenhagen, 1989-1991
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New worlds
--
In the belly of the beast: Moscow, October 1990
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Rookie Vaticanista: Rome, May 1991 and March-April 1992
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"Do you have some Polish ancestors?": Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, and Tarnów, June 1991
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Pilsner on tap and martyr-confessors: Prague and Bratislava, October 1991
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In the Alps: Liechtenstein, July 1992
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Così Giovane: Rome, November 1992
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After the revolution: Rome and Poland, 1992-1994
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The biography that wasn't: Washington and Rome, Spring 1995
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Parsing freedom: New York and Baltimore, October 1995
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The witness, from inside
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The Mandatum scribendi: Washington, January 1996
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"That's obvious ... ": Rome, March 1996
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Worse than Solzhenitsyn: Kraków, July 1996
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"It was always 'them' and 'us'": Rome, September 1996
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The indispensable man: Rome, 1996-1999
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Spiral staircase: Rome, December 1996
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Tutor, translator, librarian, nun: Rome, February-October 1997
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"Humiliation at the hands of evil" and crypto-Lenin: Rome, January 1997
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A pride of curialists: Rome, 1996-1999
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"Something useful for the Universal Church": Rome, March 1997
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WojtyŁa's Poland in depth: Warsaw, Krakóđw, and Lublin, April 1997
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Inside the Holy See--Israel negotiations, Austin, May 1997
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Back in sync in Poland: Kraków, June 1997
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Camels for daughters?: Kraków and Paris, August 1997
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Polonia on the Potomac: Washington, 1997-1998
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Literary architecture: Charleston, September 1997
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"Who eez Bob DEE-lahn?": Rome, September 1997
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"Are you proud to be an American?": Rome and Vienna, November-December 1997
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The island prison: Cuba, January 1998
--
"What are you doing here? You are not from Milwaukee ... ": Rome, March 1998
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"Joan or Gwyneth?": Rome, April 1998
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"He is a source of light": Rome, April 1998
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"You are getting grey": Poland and Rome, July-December 1998
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Impeachment intervenes: Washington, July 1998-February 1999
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Last lap: Washington and Rome, January-June 1999
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Jubilee pilgrim's progress
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A long embrace: Rome, September 1999
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On the road: the United States, Canada, and Europe, October 1999-January 2000
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Wisdom personified: Jerusalem, March 2000
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Back home in Poland: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań, WrocŁaw, and Kraków, May 2000
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Lusitania and Oz: Portugal and Australia, June and October 2000
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Erasmus, the ethereal Spanish Pyrenees, and a report to the Pope: New York, Pamplona, and Rome, November-December 2000
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Via crucis
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Under the golden dome: Notre Dame, February 2001
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Abraham Lincoln in full pontificals: Rome, February-March 2001
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Chilled Guinness, Michael Jackson, Honorable Members, and unhappy tabletistas: Ireland, England, Scotland, March 2001
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Ben-Hur and the Pope: Rome, May 2001
--
New world disorder: Rome, October-November 2001
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the long Lent: Portugal, Toronto, and Germany, 2002
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The Iraq crisis: Washington and Rome, January-April 2003
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Dark night and silver jubilee: Rome, October 2003
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T.S. Eliot and a good story ruined: Rome, December 2003
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"I proved them wrong": Rome, December 2004
--
Fourteenth station: Rome, March-April 2005
--
Mission continued
--
A gold mine of secrets: Poland and Rome, 2007-2008
--
Beatification and a life reconsidered: Rome, 2006-2008
--
A promise kept: Washington and Poland, 2010-2012
--
Lessons in hope.
Summary:
Describes the author's friendship with St. John Paul II, recounting the end of the Cold War and the commotion caused by post-Vatican II Catholicism.
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