46 Men and Women Share ‘What John Paul II Means to Me’

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Remembering St. John Paul II on his 103rd birthday

A POPE FOR ALL SEASONS

TESTIMONIES INSPIRED BY SAINT JOHN PAUL II

By Monika Jabłońska

Angelico Press, 2023

263 pages, $30, hardcover; $19.95, paperback; $8.99, Kindle

To order: amazon.com



On this day 103 years ago, Karol Wojtyła was born.

Monika Jabłońska, author of Wind From Heaven, is back with a new book about the Polish Pope, a collection of 46 interviews that could go by the title “What John Paul II Means to Me.”

The interviews are of varying length, with almost every one ending with the question: “How do we build a civilization of love?” The interviewees range from people who knew Karol Wojtyła as a youth in Wadowice (Eugenius Mróz) to people whose paths crossed the Pope’s for periods longer or shorter. There are those whose birth meant that, for them, he was “the Pope” (Vatican journalist Paolo Fucili). There are also reflections on what it means for the Church, 18 years after St. John Paul II’s death, for a whole new generation that never knew him (Father Robert Skrzypczak).

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