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By George Weigel

ISBN-10: 0061118524

ISBN-13: 9780061118524

ISBN-10: 0066213312

ISBN-13: 9780066213316

George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the traditional through which all pictures of the fashionable papacy are actually measured. With God's Choice, he provides us a rare chronicle of the increase of Pope Benedict XVI in addition to an unflinching view of the Catholic Church on the sunrise of a brand new era.

When John Paul II lapsed into disease for the final time, humans flocked from world wide to hope open air his condo. He had develop into a father determine to hundreds of thousands in an international bereft of sturdy paternal examples, and people thousands now felt orphaned. After greater than twenty-six years of John Paul II's tips, the Catholic Church is getting into a brand new age, with its bedrock traditions intact yet with urgent inquiries to deal with in a speedily altering global. starting with the tale of John Paul's ultimate months, God's Choice bargains a striking within account of the conclave that produced Benedict XVI because the subsequent pope, drawing on George Weigel's unequalled entry to this complicated event.

Weigel additionally incisively surveys the present kingdom of the Church around the globe: its thriving populations in Africa, Latin the US, and components of the post-communist global; its cave in in western Europe; its endured struggles in Asia; and the vibrancy of many features of Catholic existence within the usa, whilst the Church in the United States struggles to beat its fresh adventure of scandal.

Reflecting on John Paul II's greatness, drawing on firsthand interviews to color an intimate portrait of the recent Pope, and boldly assessing the Church's present , God's Choice is a useful publication for an individual trying to comprehend the Catholic destiny and the bigger human destiny the Church may also help to shape.

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The Catechism was also one of the most important cultural accomplishments of the pontiﬁcate. Contemporary high culture held that the men and women of our time could not retrieve, much less make their own, the origins of their religious and moral traditions; the Catechism taught that, whatever problems modern historical scholarship posed for a retrieval of Christian origins, the Church was always in touch with the source of its life, the Risen Christ, who continued to live in the Church which is his mystical body in the world.

Now, however, the papacy was in play in the appropriate way—as a voice of moral reason, proposing a moral grammar and vocabulary through which the world could sort out the basic question of all politics: How should we live together? A youthful Church If anything seemed clear in 1978, it was that young people around the world, and particularly in the West, simply weren’t interested in what Catholicism had to offer. That wasn’t clear to Karol Wojtyla, however. He had been a pied piper for the young for thirty years when he assumed the papacy; the young people he had ﬁrst met when they were students in Stalinist-era Poland and he was a newly ordained university chaplain—the students who called him Wujek [Uncle] and whom he came to call “my Qrodowisko” [milieu]—were not different in kind from 38 GOD’S CHOICE the young people of the late 20th century, he was convinced.

70—and that had done grave damage to both parties ever since. The rubble being largely cleared away, however, the question became: Now what? Some imagined that, with Catholic liturgical, catechetical, and homiletic materials cleansed of formulations offensive to Jewish ears, and with Catholics The Church That John Paul II Left Behind 47 and Jews working together in the West to build open, tolerant, and civil societies, the agenda of Catholic-Jewish dialogue had just about been completed. John Paul disagreed.

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