The Pole in Rome

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel (HarperCollins, 992 pp., $35)

THOSE who knew it was coming, knew it would be something good. George Weigel, the Catholic theologian and journalist, worked on his book for only three years—an astonishingly short time for a work so ambitious and important. His subject, the Pope, had asked him to write his semi-authorized biography. Weigel was thus given the opportunity of a lifetime; he has brought it off magnificently.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel (HarperCollins, 992 pp., $35)

THOSE who knew it was coming, knew it would be something good. George Weigel, the Catholic theologian and journalist, worked on his book for only three years—an astonishingly short time for a work so ambitious and important. His subject, the Pope, had asked him to write his semi-authorized biography. Weigel was thus given the opportunity of a lifetime; he has brought it off magnificently.