Lessons in hope : my unexpected life with St. John Paul II
by Weigel, George, 1951- (Author)
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. Full description
- 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.