Universal Father: a life of John Paul II

List of illustrations and picture credits

Maps

Preface

Part One : A Slav troubadour in troubled times (1920-46) : Like death, beyond comprehension

I become a motherless only child

When the ship is sinking, what is private?

Vita Cracoviensis

The year of three plays

Equilibrium which love learns through anger

The actor carries the problem

Hidden forces produce the strongest actions

The black hood went over his head

Part Two : The hidden breath of the spirit will unify all (1946-78) : Living in little more than a hut

My train to Krakow isn't until after midnight

Sexual drive is a gift from God

The tangle of bushes and shoots

Was this goodbye to the inner man?

Death, the place of greatest concentration

Part Three : The Pope of this distracted globe (1978-90) : Peter, you are the floor

He's cleaned up his plate

Other points of the compass

Opening the ways of the Spirit

Be sober, be watchful

Siege or Sanctuary?

The ravelled sleeve of Christianity

What do they think I said next?

Now for the Polish endgame

Part Four : The nearer we are to the mountain, the smaller we are (1990-2005) : Was he losing the plot?

The connection with suffering

Still seeking to heal

The outward husk of mortality

Final lighting of the lamp

Epilogue

Notes

Chronology

Documents of John Paul II

Select bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.