Historian Weigel Is Witness for John Paul II.(George Weigel)(Interview)

From: Insight on the News | Date: November 15, 1999| Author: Rust, Michael | Copyright information

Devout Catholic and scholar George Weigel received the Vatican's blessing to write a massive biography to help the public understand the man, the myth and the message.

George Weigel's recently published Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II weighs in at a mammoth 992 pages and is being published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish and Slovenian editions, with other translations under negotiation. An American Roman Catholic scholar and the ...

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