The Official Library of JP Brown

Author: Allen, John L.

Description:
The opening chapter starts off with the context of the final months of the papacy of John Paul II. He looks as the health of John Paul II continues to decline and the reaction of those in the Vatican and others around him. Many with the ups and downs of the previous Pope’s health over the years were not quite ready when his final days actually arrived. As John Paul II once quipped when a reporter had asked about his health he said that he didn’t know since he had not yet read the papers. John L. Allen’s writing as always is very good and he really pulls you back into these events. The emotions of this time came flooding back in me as I read his narrative.