{"id":2500,"date":"2007-03-16T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/compare-and-contrast.html"},"modified":"2007-03-16T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:23:22","slug":"compare-and-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/compare-and-contrast.html","title":{"rendered":"Compare and contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Thavis at CNS looks at the two new JPII books:<\/a><\/p>\n

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As Pope John Paul II’s sainthood cause rolled forward, two people close to him have offered quite different insider accounts of his life and times. <\/p>\n

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, the late pope’s personal secretary for 39 years, has produced a conversational memoir called "A Life with Karol." In anecdotal fashion, it sketches many of their major and minor experiences together. <\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI has meanwhile released "John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor," a more analytical look at the philosophical and theological impact of his pontificate. <\/p>\n

Although the books focus on the same subject, they don’t make for redundant reading. That says something about the breadth of Pope John Paul’s 26-year pontificate. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thavis notes in the article that Cardinal Dziwisz is articulating the desire that the beatification stage be skipped with John Paul II, and we head straight for canonization. Not a great idea, and for anyone. Personally, I wish they’d stick to the fifty-year rule as much as possible. Or, at least, the St. Therese-28-Year-Rule.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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