On a per capita basis, Italy probably churns out more books on the Catholic church each year than anyplace else on earth. Given the boost created by the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, this spring has been an especially busy period for the Italian market, generating several titles that will likely make their way into translations and shape Catholic conversation around the world….
First up is Andrea Riccardi’s Giovanni Paolo II: La Biografia (“John Paul II: The Biography”), published by Edizioni San Paolo. By now there’s a vast John Paul II literature, but this biography — more than 600 pages long, abundantly documented, and written by someone who enjoyed insider’s access throughout the papacy — joins the elite group of works that really matter in terms of shaping John Paul’s legacy.
Read it all.
John Allen–Four titles from a bumper crop of Italian books
On a per capita basis, Italy probably churns out more books on the Catholic church each year than anyplace else on earth. Given the boost created by the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, this spring has been an especially busy period for the Italian market, generating several titles that will likely make their way into translations and shape Catholic conversation around the world….
First up is Andrea Riccardi’s Giovanni Paolo II: La Biografia (“John Paul II: The Biography”), published by Edizioni San Paolo. By now there’s a vast John Paul II literature, but this biography — more than 600 pages long, abundantly documented, and written by someone who enjoyed insider’s access throughout the papacy — joins the elite group of works that really matter in terms of shaping John Paul’s legacy.
Read it all.