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Tables of Contents for Witness to Hope
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A Brief Note on Pronunciation
xiii
Prologue
The Disciple
1
15
The drama of Karol Wojtyla's life
A Paradox and a sign of contradiction
The more excellent way
The broadness of a gauge
The subject and the author
A Son of Freedom
Poland Semper Fidelis
16
28
Karol Wojtyla's national, cultural, religious, and family roots
His childhood, his elementary and secondary education, the loss of his mother and brother
The influence of his father on his education and piety
His interests in Polish Romantic literature and in drama
His first undergraduate year at Krakow's Jagiellonian University
From the Underground
The Third Reich vs. The Kingdom of Truth
44
44
The Nazi Occupation of Poland
Karol Wojtyla and clandestine cultural resistance
His introduction to Carmelite spirituality and manual labor
The death of his father and the unfolding of a priestly vocation
The underground seminary
An ``unbroken prince,'' Archbishop Adam Stefan Sapieha
Karol Wojtyla's ordination and graduate studies in theology in Rome
``Call Me Wujek''
To Be a Priest
88
34
Country curate
Father Karol Wojtyla's pioneering student chaplaincy in Krakow
His first essays and poems
The temptation of revolutionary violence and Wojtyla's first mature play
An outdoorsman and a model confessor
The beauty of human love
Seeing Things as They Are
The Making of a Philosopher
122
23
A Second doctorate, a new Philosophical interest, and a new career
Karol Wojtyla at the Catholic University of Lublin
The Lublin challenge to modern skepticism
A book on love and sexuality that raises a few eyebrows
A New Pentecost
Vatican II and the Crisis of Humanism
145
36
The youngest bishop in Poland
The Second Vatican Council
Karol Wojtyla is named Archbishop of Krakow
Setting Vatican II's defense of freedom on a firm Philosophical foundation
Successor to St. Stanislaw
Living the Council in Krakow
181
54
A cardinal at age forty-seven
Wojtyla's quest for religious freedom in Krakow
An extensive local implementation of Vatican II
The mature essayist, poet, and playwright
A distinctive style and a unique set of friends
Testing the world stage
A Pope From a Far Country
The Election of John Paul II
235
24
The Church at the death of Pope Paul VI
The ``September Papacy'' of Pope John Paul I
The election of Karol Jozef Wojtyla as the first Slavic Pope in history and the first non-Italian in 455 years, to the surprise of many, but not all, concerned
``Be Not Afraid!''
A Pope for the World
259
32
An earthquake in the papacy and the Vatican
Redefining the public ministry of the Bishop of Rome
An alternative theology of liberation
Program notes for a pontificate
Preventing a war in Latin America
Consternation in the Kremlin
``How Many Divisions Has the Pope?''
Confronting an Empire of Lies
291
35
The cultural power of the politically powerless
An epic pilgrimage to Poland
Nine days that bent the curve of modern history
A revolution of conscience
The Ways of Freedom
326
561
Truths Personal and Public
Marital intimacy as an icon of the inner life of God
Denouncing sectarian violence in Ireland
The Pope at the United Nations
Religious freedom as the first human right
Teenagers in a frenzy at Madison Square Garden
Galileo reconsidered
An appeal to Orthodoxy
Peter Among Us
The Universal Pastor as Apostolic Witness
363
33
The pilgrim Pope in Africa, France, Brazil, West Germany, and Asia
Collegiality and crisis management
In defense of the family
A bold appointment in Paris
The mysteries of fatherhood and mercy, divine and human
In the Eye of the Storm
Months of Violence and Dissent
396
41
The birth of Solidarity
An unprecedented letter to Leonid Brezhnev
The assassination attempt
Shock therapy for the Jesuits
The ``Gospel of work''
Martial law in Poland
The Falklands/Malvinas War
Liberating Liberations
The Limits of Politics and the Promise of Redemption
437
44
Revising Church law
Canonizing a martyr of Auschwitz
Confrontation in Nicaragua
To recognize the saints God has made
Restoring hope in Poland
A Seminar with agnostics and atheists
A prison visit to a would-be papal assassin
Suffering as a path to love
Reliving the Council
Religion and the Renewal of a World Still Young
481
46
Securing the legacy of Vatican II
The ``People Power'' revolution in the Philippines
Hosting world religious leaders in Assisi
The first papal visit to the Synagogue of Rome
The irrevocable Catholic commitment to Christian unity
Addressing young Muslims in Casablanca
A letter to the youth of the world
Revamping the Vatican's press office
Forward to Basics
Freedom Ordered to the Dignity of Duty
527
55
Tear gas and the quest for democracy in Chile
The beatification of Edith Stein
A preview of communism's demise
Hiking in the Dolomites
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome
Opening a dialogue with Mikhail Gorbachev
The excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
A distinctive feminism
Starting a homeless shelter in the Vatican
Counselor to Andrei Sakharov
After the Empire of Lies
Miracles and the Mandates of Justice
582
46
John Paul II in Scandinavia
The communist crack-up
A letter to Deng Xiaoping
Gorbachev in the Vatican
Defining the meaning of the ``Revolution of 1989''
Challenging democracies to live freedom nobly
The Gulf War
The Catholic identity of Catholic universities
To the Ends of the Earth
Reconciling an Unreconciled World
628
50
The Church is a mission
A storm of controversy with Orthodoxy
The reevangelization of Europe
Priests for a new millennium
Colon surgery
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Rejecting clericalism in Poland
Defending persecuted Christians in Sudan
Taking on the Mafia in Sicily
The Threshold of Hope
Appealing to Our Better Angels
678
62
A surprise in Denver
The renewal of moral theology
Diplomatic relations with Israel
Confronting the U.S. government at the Cairo World Population Conference
More health problems
A convent for contemplative nuns in the Vatican
The debate on women and the priesthood
An international bestseller
Only One World
Human Solidarity and the Gospel of Life
740
49
The Great Jubilee of 2000
The largest crowd in human history
Another assassination attempt
The ``Gospel of life''
The Vatican and the World Conference on Women in Beijing
Asking Orthodox and Protestant Christians to help devise a papacy that could serve them
A ``witness to hope'' addresses the United Nations again
Singing in New York's Central Park
The golden jubilee
A Reasonable Faith
Beyond a Century of Delusions
789
54
Revising the rules for papal elections
France and Poland
Sarajevo, Lebanon and Cuba
The longest-serving pope of the twentieth century
Catholic renewal movements in St. Peter's Square
John Paul II's twentieth anniversary
The Church in defense of human reason
Epilogue the Third Millennium
To See the Sun Rise
843
22
The critiques of John Paul II are evaluated, his accomplishments are assayed, and a suggestion as to the nature of his greatness is offered
Afterword A Church for the New Millennium
The Great Jubilee of 2000
865
22
Notes
887
84
Bibliography
971
10
Acknowledgments
981
4
Index
985