On the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II

• All-Embracing Man of Action for a New Era of Papacy, by Robert McFadden. New York Times April 3, 2005:

  The man who would call himself John Paul II was not the traditional papal figure, compassionate and loving but ascetic and remote behind the high walls and the elaborate ceremony of the Vatican. Here was a different kind of pope: complex, schooled in confrontation, theologically intransigent but deftly politic, full of wit and daring, energy and physically expressive love.

  More than outgoing, he was all-embracing - a bear-hugging, larger-than-life man of action who had climbed mountains, performed in plays, written books and seen war, and he was determined from the start to make the world his parish and go out and minister to its troubles and see to its spiritual needs.

• A Man for All Seasons: The very modern papacy of John Paul II Wall Street Journal:

  . . . this was a man eminently comfortable with modernity--even while he refused to accept modernity's most shallow assumptions. Just as he offered his first public words as pope in Italian to make himself understood by those below his balcony, he held that ultimate truths about man and his relationship with his Creator are never outdated, however much they require constant expression in new languages and new circumstances.

  
  

• "A magnificent pope who presided over a controversial pontificate", by John Allen Jr. National Catholic Reporter April 2004.
  

• The Last Anti-modern Pope, by Sandro Magister; interview with Giovanni Maria Vian: "His was a Church of saints set against the powers of evil: first Soviet communism, then the civilization of money, sex, and the liberty that enslaves."

Avery Cardinal Dulles on Pope John Paul II

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University. Past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society and Professor Emeritus at The Catholic University of America, Cardinal Dulles has served on the International Theological Commission and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Coordinating Committee. He was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in February 2001, the first U.S. theologian to be so honored in such a manner. He is author of The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II.

• John Paul II and the Mystery of the Human Person - Oct. 1, 2003. Fordham University McGinley Lecture. [Streaming Video]; Article in Print America February 2, 2004. Vol. 190 No. 3. [subscription required].
  
• Truth as the Ground of Freedom: A Theme from John Paul II The Acton Institute, 2002.
  Can Philosophy Be Christian? On the encyclical Fides Et Ratio. First Things 102 (April 2000): 24-29.
  
• John Paul II and The Advent of The New Millennium originally delivered at Fordham University on Nov. 16, 1999 as the Eighth Annual Fall McGinley Lecture.
  
• John Paul II and the Truth about Freedom First Things 55 (August/September 1995): 36-41.
  
• Centesimus Annus and the Renewal of Culture Markets & Morality Volume 2, Number 1. Spring 1999. Speech delivered to a conference on the encyclical Centesimus Annus, sponsored by the Acton Institute, Washington, D.C., May 13-14, 1996.
  
• The Gospel of Life: A Symposium. First Things, 56 (October 1995): 32-38. Participating in a discussion of Evangelium Vitae.

Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus on Pope John Paul II

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus is editor-in-chief of First Things, published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, and the author of several books on Pope John Paul II, including Appointment in Rome: The Church in America Awakening -- chronicling the Synod for America held in Rome, 1997 -- to which he was a special delegate designated by the Pope -- and Doing Well & Doing Good: The Challenge to the Christian Capitalist, on the Papal encyclical Centesimus Annus.

• A Passion for Truth. First Things 88 (December 1998).
  
• The Cuban Revolutions First Things 83 (May 1998): 23-28. Notes and observations from Fr. Neuhaus' trip with Pope John Paul II's historic to Cuba, which was unfortunately shrounded by the media coverage of President Bill Clinton's sex scandal.
  
• The Liberalism of John Paul II First Things 73 (May 1997): 16-21. On the liberalism (properly understood) of the Pope, on the political philosophy of the encylical Centesimus Annus.
  
• John Paul II Plays "The Capital of the World". First Things 59 (January 1996).
  
• The Gospel of Life. Review of Evangelium Vitae. Wall Street Journal April 3, 1995.
  

George Weigel on Pope John Paul II

George Weigel is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of the 1999 biography Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, which was published in eleven languages. He has traveled with the Pope and over the course of his life has explicated his thought in articles, interviews and addresses, which are collected here:

• Moments, Public & Private, with the Pope. Interview with Fr. Raymond J. DeSouza. National Catholic Register Special Edition: John Paul II: A Life That Changed the World. April 10-16, 2005.
  
• The Pope in Private, from the April 11 issue of Newsweek. ("A serious philosopher, John Paul II also had a serious sweet tooth . . . .")
  
• Pope John Paul II and Evangelicals. Interview with Christianity Today. April 4, 2005.
  
• John Paul II in Words and Pictures: Remembering the "Witness to Hope", Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC) COLLECTION April 4, 2005.
  
• Mourning and Remembrance: The pope believed that "history" is His-story--the story of God's quest for man. Wall Street Journal April 4, 2005.
  
• "A Man Who Believed That Jesus Christ Is the Answer". Interview with Zenit on the impact of John Paul II's pontificate. April 3, 2005.
  
• A Disciple Defined by His Faith Obituary for The Boston Globe April 3, 2005.
  
• Pope John Paul II: An Appreciation Scripps Howard News Service. April 2, 2005.
  Witness to a Man of Hope & Inspiration Interview with Kathryn Lopez on the life and legacy of John Paul II. National Review April 2, 2005.
  
• Lessons of a Pontiff's Twilight The Washington Post March 22, 2005.
  The Next Pope...and Why He Matters to All of Us The Fourth William E. Simon Lecture. Delivered January 12, 2005.
  
• What The Pope is Teaching Us Now Interview with Zenit.org. Oct. 18, 2004.
  
• The President and The Pope. From the Ronald Reagan Memorial Issue of National Review. June 22, 2004.
  
• Why Everyone Counts: What John Paul II Has Helped Teach Us. Commencement speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. May 8, 2004.
  
• A living prayer of self-sacrifice. "The Catholic Difference". Oct. 28, 2003.
  
• The great Christian witness of our time. "The Catholic Difference". October 22, 2003.
  
• The Heroic Papacy. "John Paul II has dramatically revitalized the world's oldest institutional office, and continues to surprise." Beliefnet.com. Oct. 2003.
  
• On the 25 Year "Silver Anniversary" of John Paul II Interview with Zenit.org. Sept. 29, 2003.
  
• The Pope & The Genius. On the Pope's appreciation of Michaelangelo. "The Catholic Difference". April 11, 2003.
  
• On the Pope's New Poetry Interview with Zenit.org. March 20, 2003.
  And the Wall Came Tumbling Down: Pope John Paul II and the Collapse of Communism A Lecture Given at Grove City College (Grove City College, PA). Feb. 15, 2002.
  
• John Paul II: A Life for Life Keynote Address: Culture of Life Conference Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. University of Notre Dame. 29 November 2001 [.pdf format]
  
• Holy Land Pilgrimage: A Diary. First Things 104 (June/July 2000): 27-34.
  The Holy Father in the Holy Land The Weekly Standard Volume 005, Issue 29 April 10, 2000.
  
• Pope John Paul II and the Dynamics of History. The 2000 Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs. Watch on the West Volume 1, Number 6. April 2000.
  
• John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism. First Things 98 (December 1999): 31-36.
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  John Paul II's Hope for the Springtime of the Human Spirit. Religion & Liberty. The Acton Institute. September-October 1999.
  
• Prepared to Lead Crisis 15, no. 9. October, 1998.
  John Paul II and the Priority of Culture. First Things 80 (February 1998): 19-25.
  
• II Papa Meets El Presidente: John Paul II goes to Cuba. The Weekly Standard Volume 003, Issue 18. January 19, 1998.
  John Paul II: preparing the 21st Century. Crisis 15 No. 10. November 1997.
  
• The Mobile Pope From the issue "John Paul in America", The Weekly Standard October 9, 1995.