| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 357 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
A dinner of consequence -- Coincidence and providence -- Lent in the third grade: Baltimore, 1960 -- First steps in philosophy: Baltimore, 1969-1973 -- Contesting the Council, Toronto, 1973-1975 -- Apprentice wordsmith: Seattle, 1975-1984 -- Front row seat: New York and Baltimore, October 1979 -- In the castle: Washington, 1984-1989 -- Cold War endgame: Washington, 1985-1989 -- EPPC, diplomacy, and Centesimus annus: Washington and Copenhagen, 1989-1991 -- New worlds -- In the belly of the beast: Moscow, October 1990 -- Rookie Vaticanista: Rome, May 1991 and March-April 1992 -- "Do you have some Polish ancestors?": Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, and Tarnów, June 1991 -- Pilsner on tap and martyr-confessors: Prague and Bratislava, October 1991 -- In the Alps: Liechtenstein, July 1992 -- Così Giovane: Rome, November 1992 -- After the revolution: Rome and Poland, 1992-1994 -- The biography that wasn't: Washington and Rome, Spring 1995 -- Parsing freedom: New York and Baltimore, October 1995 -- The witness, from inside -- The Mandatum scribendi: Washington, January 1996 -- "That's obvious ... ": Rome, March 1996 -- Worse than Solzhenitsyn: Kraków, July 1996 -- "It was always 'them' and 'us'": Rome, September 1996 -- The indispensable man: Rome, 1996-1999 -- Spiral staircase: Rome, December 1996 -- Tutor, translator, librarian, nun: Rome, February-October 1997 -- "Humiliation at the hands of evil" and crypto-Lenin: Rome, January 1997 -- A pride of curialists: Rome, 1996-1999 -- "Something useful for the Universal Church": Rome, March 1997 -- Wojtyła's Poland in depth: Warsaw, Kraków, and Lublin, April 1997 -- Inside the Holy See--Israel negotiations, Austin, May 1997 -- Back in sync in Poland: Kraków, June 1997 -- Camels for daughters?: Lralów and Paris, August 1997 -- Polonia on the Potomac: Washington, 1997-1998 -- Literary architecture: Charleston, September 1997 -- "Who eez Bob DEE-lahn?": Rome, September 1997 -- "Are you proud to be an American?": Rome and Vienna, November-December 1997 -- The island prison: Cuba, January 1998 -- "What are you doing here? You are not from Milwaukee ... ": Rome, March 1998 -- "Joan or Gwyneth?": Rome, April 1998 -- "He is a source of light": Rome, April 1998 -- "You are getting grey": Poland and Rome, July-December 1998 -- Impeachment intervenes: Washington, July 1998-February 1999 -- Last lap: Washington and Rome, January-June 1999 -- Jubilee pilgrim's progress -- A long embrace: Rome, September 1999 -- On the road: the United States, Canada, and Europe, October 1999-January 2000 -- Wisdom personified: Jerusalem, March 2000 -- Back home in Poland: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, and Kraków, May 2000 -- Lusitania and Oz: Portugal and Australia, June and October 2000 -- Erasmus, the ethereal Spanish Pyrenees, and a report to the Pope: New York, Pamplona, and Rome, November-December 2000 -- Via crucis -- Under the golden dome: Notre Dame, February 2001 -- Abraham Lincoln in full pontificals: Rome, February-March 2001 -- Chilled Guinness, Michael Jackson, Honorable Members, and unhappy tabletistas: Ireland, England, Scotland, March 2001 -- Ben-Hur and the Pope: Rome, May 2001 -- New world disorder: Rome, October-November 2001 -- the long Lent: Portugal, Toronto, and Germany, 2002 -- The Iraq crisis: Washington and Rome, January-April 2003 -- Dark night and silver jubilee: Rome, October 2003 -- T.S. Eliot and a good story ruined: Rome, December 2003 -- "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. |
| Subject |
John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005.
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Weigel, George, 1951- -- Friends and associates.
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John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005. (OCoLC)fst00027469
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Weigel, George, 1951- (OCoLC)fst00103611
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Popes -- Biography.
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Biographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Catholics -- Biography.
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Biographers. (OCoLC)fst00832107
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Catholics. (OCoLC)fst00849297
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Popes. (OCoLC)fst01071262
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
9780465094295 (hardcover) |
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0465094295 (hardcover) |
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