Volume 41, Number 21 · December 22, 1994
The Tragic Pope?
By Garry Wills
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crossing the Threshold of Hope
by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee
Knopf, 244 pp., $20.00
Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by
edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan
Viking/a Giniger book, 466 pp., $17.95
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Liguori Publications, 803 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II
translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Random House, 197 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The Papacy
by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert
Columbia University Press, 330 pp., $20.00 (paper)
Was the Pope subjecting us to a Great Wu routine? It seemed so. Let Orson Welles, always a bit of a Wu himself, explain:
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