Witness to hope

• A Brief Note on Pronunciation
• p. xiii

• Prologue: The Disciple

• The drama of Karol Wojtyla's life

• A paradox and a sign of contradiction

• The more excellent way

• The broadness of a guage

• The subject and the author
• p. 1

• 1
• A Son of Freedom: Poland Semper Fidelis

• 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
• p. 16

• 2
• From the Underground: The Third Reich vs. the Kingdom of Truth

• 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
• p. 44

• 3
• "Call Me Wujek": To Be a Priest

• 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
• p. 88

• 4
• Seeing Things as They Are: The Making of a Philosopher

• 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
• p. 122

• 5
• A New Pentecost: Vatican II and the Crisis of Humanism

• 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
• p. 145

• 6
• Successor to St. Stanislaw: Living the Council in Krakow

• 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
• p. 181

• 7
• A Pope from a Far Country: The Election of John Paul II

• 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
• p. 235

• 8
• "Be Not Afraid!": A Pope for the World

• 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
• p. 259

• 9
• "How Many Divisions Has the Pope?": Confronting an Empire of Lies

• 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
• p. 291

• 10
• The Ways of Freedom: 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
• p. 326

• 11
• Peter Among Us: The Universal Pastor as Apostolic Witness

• 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
• p. 363

• 12
• In the Eye of the Storm: Months of Violence and Dissent

• 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
• p. 396

• 13
• Liberating Liberations The Limits of Politics and the Promise of Redemption

• 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
• p. 437

• 14
• Reliving the Council: Religion and the Renewal of a World Still Young

• 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
• p. 481

• 15
• Forward to Basics: Freedom Ordered to the Dignity of Duty

• 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
• p. 527

• 16
• After the Empire of Lies: Miracles and the Mandates of Justice

• 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
• p. 582

• 17
• To the Ends of the Earth: Reconciling an Unreconciled World

• The Church is a mission

• A storm of controversy with Orthodoxy

• The re-evangelization 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
• p. 628

• 18
• The Threshold of Hope: Appealing to Our Better Angels

• 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
• p. 678

• 19
• Only One World: Human Solidarity and the Gospel of Life

• 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
• p. 740

• 20
• A Reasonable Faith: Beyond a Century of Delusions

• 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
• p. 789

• Epilogue The Third Millennium: To See the Sun Rise

• The critiques of John Paul II are evaluated, his accomplishments are assayed, and a suggestion as to the nature of his greatness is offered
• p. 843

• Notes
• p. 865

• Bibliography
• p. 947

• Acknowledgments
• p. 957

• Index
• p. 961