Why He Is a Saint by Oder, Slawomir -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Preface: THE UNKNOWN FACE OF JOHN PAUL II Chapter One: THE MAN

Faith in Flesh and Blood “Uncle” Karol The Priest Born from the Ashes of an Actor Undercover in the Seminary The Phantom of the Double Homicide In the Service of God and of His People With His Arms Extended in the Sign of the Cross Totus Tuus All in the Light of Faith The Lessons of Vatican II Reconciling Culture and Pastoral Duties In the Chill of Nowa Huta In the Sights of the Polish Intelligence Service A Fiery Sermon The Bells of Pope Paul VI The Prophetic “Habemus Papam”

Chapter Two: THE POPE

The Second Home of the Poles A Pole on St. Peter’s Throne Choosing His Colleagues A Firmness Underpinned by Humility “It Will Take Blood to Convert” The “Open Letter” to Ali Ağca “Open the Borders of the States” The Collapse of Communism The Heir to St. Paul In the World’s “Hot Zones” A Matchless Magisterium In Dialogue with the Other Faiths “There Is No Place in the Church for a Pope Emeritus” The Father’s Return Home

Chapter Three: THE MYSTIC

Traveling Up the River to Its Source Blessed Are the Poor The Essential as a Form of Liberty A Creative and Poetic Body of Thought Illuminating the Path with the Fire of Prayer A Utility Closet as a Chapel With a Heart Devoted to His Homeland Taking Inspiration from the Saints for the Practice of Virtues The Prediction of Padre Pio In “Conversation” with the Virgin Mary “If I Weren’t Pope, I Would Already Be in Medjugorje Confessing” In the Sign of Suffering The Stations of the Cross in the Hallway

Epilogue: A TRIBUTE TO THE TRUTH CONCISE CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF KAROL WOJTYŁA—JOHN PAUL II