The Pope In Poland

Author : James Ramon Felak
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987341
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pope in Poland written by James Ramon Felak and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in over 500 years, and the first Slavic pontiff in history. Shortly after his election to the papacy in 1978, he launched a series of visits to his native Poland, then in the midst of dramatic social changes that heralded the end of Communism. In this groundbreaking book, James Ramon Felak carefully examines the Pope’s first four visits to his homeland in June of 1979, 1983, 1987, and 1991 in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period. Careful analysis of speeches, press coverage, and documents from the Communist Party, government, and police show how the Pope and the Communist authorities engaged one another. Felak gives equal attention to John Paul’s political and religious messages, highlighting how he astutely maneuvered between the rising hopes of the Polish people and the dangerous fears of a dying regime. The Pope in Poland recreates and explicates these dramatic visits that played a major role in the collapse of Communism in Poland as well as laid out a papal vision for Poland’s post-Communist future.

Author : Tadeusz Karolak
Publisher : Interpress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul II, the Pope from Poland written by Tadeusz Karolak and published by Interpress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Leonora Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780819842091
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karol from Poland written by M. Leonora Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karol from Poland leads young readers to identify with the adventures and challenges that molded Pope John Paul into a missionary of God's unconditional love and mercy. This delightful illustrated biography presents John Paul II as a positive role model a

Author : Jerzy Kluger
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833130X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pope and I written by Jerzy Kluger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first blush, a pope and a Holocaust survivor might not seem to have much in common. But this remarkable volume finds common ground in what may appear to be unlikely territory. Karol Lolek Wojtyla, a young Pole, and Jerzy Jurek Kluger, another young Pole, formed a friendship in grade school in the Polish town of Wadowice. Then their paths went separate waysKluger survived the horrors of the Holocaust while Wojtyla would become the future John Paul IIbut despite their differences and the years apart, they remained friends. (Kluger caught up with the then Archbishop Wojtyla in Rome during Vatican II.) Given the friendship, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that John Paul II earned a reputation as a friend of Judaism: the first pope since Saint Peter to visit and pray with Jews in the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first to visit Auschwitz, and the first to make a personal pilgrimage as well as an official state visit to Israel. This often touching memoir should be of interest to Catholics and Jews and, really, anyone interested in a remarkable friendship.

Author : Paul Kengor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516358
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pope and a President written by Paul Kengor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor changes that. In this fascinating book, he reveals a singular bond—which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president—that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century: Soviet communism. Reagan and John Paul II almost didn't have the opportunity to forge this relationship: just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, they took bullets from would-be assassins. But their strikingly similar near-death experiences brought them close together—to Moscow's dismay.Based on Kengor's tireless archival digging and his unique access to Reagan insiders, A Pope and a President is full of revelations. It takes you inside private meetings between Reagan and John Paul II and into the Oval Office, the Vatican, the CIA, the Kremlin, and many points beyond. Nancy Reagan called John Paul II her husband's "closest friend"; Reagan himself told Polish visitors that the pope was his "best friend." When you read this book, you will understand why. As kindred spirits, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II united in pursuit of a supreme objective—and in doing so they changed history.

Author : Jadwiga Radon
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434937364
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Paul II written by Jadwiga Radon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Jesus Christ be praised! This Polish greeting awakens a cascade of deep emotion as we remember Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, relive this not only as a customary way of opening his homilies, but in his very existence as a man after God's own heart. John Paul II is a book that will bring readers to know this great man who dedicated His life for the service of Christ and for the people all over the world, the kind that no accounted ministry could-in so far-surpass. Jadwiga Radon, the author and as a first-hand witness, would bring readers to see how John Paul smile, lead, exhort, and love the Lord and His church. A material that is historically substantial and spiritually significant. About the Author Jadwiga Radon is a Polish American. She is a retired teacher interested particularly in history and politics. Born and raised in communist regime she is a witness of John Paul II earth life and many historical events in Eastern European countries.

Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253054036
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation written by Jonathan Huener and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive measures.

Author : Monika Jablonska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621383048
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wind From Heaven written by Monika Jablonska and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind from Heaven is the story of the future pope Karol Wojtyla as poet and playwright, as true servant of the Word - a student of Polish literature, dramatist, actor, professor, philosopher, and priest, whose religious conviction added a moral dimension to world politics, transformed the Church, and changed the course of history.

Author : George Weigel
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0553418904
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Saints written by George Weigel and published by Image. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was a man whose life was the expression of a richly textured and multidimensional soul. The many layers of that soul took on their first, mature form in Kraków.” – George Weigel In this beautifully illustrated spiritual travelogue, New York Times bestselling author George Weigel leads readers through the historic streets of Kraków, Poland, introducing one of the world’s great cities through the life of one of the most influential Catholic leaders of all time. “To follow Karol Wojtyła through Kraków is to follow an itinerary of sanctity while learning the story of a city.” Weigel writes. “Thus, in what follows, the story of Karol Wojtyła, St. John Paul II, and the story of Kraków are interwoven in a chronological pilgrimage through the life of a saint that reveals, at the same time, the dramatic history and majestic culture of a city where a boy grew into a man, priest, a bishop—and an apostle to the world.” With stunning photographs by Stephen Weigel and notes on the city’s remarkable fabric by Carrie Gress, City of Saints offers an in-depth look at a man and a city that made an indelible impression on the life and thought of the Catholic Church and the 21st century world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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