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Lawrence S. Cunningham October 17, 2005 - 10:57am

Universal Father

A Life of John Paul II

Gary O’Connor

Bloomsbury, $24.95, 448 pp.
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Published shortly before Pope John Paul II’s death, Universal Father is one of a raft of biographies of Karol Wojtyla. The most notable of the bunch is George Weigel’s Witness to Hope (HarperCollins), which had the advantage of both...

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Lawrence S. Cunningham is John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Things Seen and Unseen: A Catholic Theologian's Notebook (Ave Maria Press).

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