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"Nearly a billion believers consider Pope John Paul II to be God's mouthpiece on earth. He wields extraordinary influence as a world statesman. Thus it was a real coup when Tad Szula, author of 18 books and once a reporter for the New York Times, obtained unprecedented interviews with the pontiff and his associates, as well as access to private documents. Here is Szulc's unauthorized, yet sympathetic biography. Szulc discloses how Eastern bloc communists helped Karol Wojtyla (the polish pontiff's given name) climb to the papacy, then later plotted to neutralize him as Pope. We also learn that John Paul II, while he was Cardinal Wojtyla, drafted Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae on contraception. Now, as the next millennium approaches, is the Pope presiding over one of the Catholic Church's deepest periods of crisis? "Vital reading about one of the most important figures of our time.".

A fascinating profile of one of the most influential leaders of our lifetime: Pope John Paul II. Reported by NBC News' Keith Morrison. Includes rare archival footage. A bonus extra includes "The Sistine Chapel Restored." Also, "The Making of a Saint.".

Night after restless night, something coaxes Pope Clement XV to the Vatican's private archive - something concerning the revelations of Fatima.

Relates the life of the Polish priest, Karol Wojtyla, who rose through the Catholic Church to become Pope John Paul II.

Takes a look at traditional assumptions and theological interpretations concerning papal infallibility and the teaching authority of the church.

An easy-to-use resource the reader can rely on to improve command of the scriptural basis for the institution of the papacy, papal authority, infallibility, and other critically important but difficult to remember facts.

Tells of the farm boy who became Pope. He has been called the "Pope of little children" as he changed the requirements for First Communion so that young children as early as 7 years old could receive the Holy Eucharist.