Theology 390 / Religion 97

 The Theological Vision
of John Paul II 

THOMAS F. DAILEY, O.S.F.S.

 

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(last updated 04/25/08)

 

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Biographical Information

Accattoli, Luigi. John Paul II: Man of the Millennium. Translated by Jordan Aumann, OP. Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 2000.

Accattoli, Luigi. When a Pope Asks Forgiveness: The Mea Culpa's of Pope John Paul II. Boston: St. Paul Books & Media, 1998.

Alcantara, Juan Navarro.  John Paul II, Pilgrim of the World.  Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2000.

Bernstein, Carl and Marco Politi. His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

see the review essay by George Weigel in First Things (January 1997)

Blazynski, George.  John Paul II: A Man from Krakow.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.

Bonic, Thomas.  His Holiness Pope John Paul II.  Danbury, CT:  Grolier, Ltd, 1985.

Boniecki, Adam.  The Making of the Pope of the Millennium:  Kalendarium of the Life of Karol Wojtyla.  Stockbridge, MA:  Association of Marian Helpers, 2000.

Brooks, David.  "Bigger Than the Nobel."  The New York Times (October 11, 2003), A15.

Buckley, William F.  "Pope John Paul II."  TIME magazine.

Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan.  "The Pope's Secret File."  American Spectator 39/2 (March 2006): 58-60.

Collins, Michael.  John Paul II: Chronicle of a Remarkable Life.  DK Publishing, 2000.

Douglas, Robert W.  John Paul II: The Pilgrim Pope.  Danbury, CT:  Children's Press, 1980.

Fischer, Heinz Joachim.  John Paul II:  A Pope for the People.  Harry N. Abrams, March 2004.

Flynn, Ray.  John Paul II:  A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man.  Manchester, NH:  Sophia Institute Press, 2001.

Giansant, Gianni and Marco Tosatti.  John Paul II:  Portrait of a Pontiff.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 2000.

Greene, Meg.  Pope John Paul II: A Biography.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Gronowicz, Anton. God's Broker: The Life of John Paul II. New York: Richardson & Snyder, 1984.

Journalists of Reuters.  Pope John Paul II: Reaching Out Across Borders.  Reuters, February 2003.

Kindersley, Dorling. John Paul II: Chronicle of a Remarkable Life. Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

Kwitny, Jonathan. Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II. New York: Henry Holt, 1997.

Legrand, Catherine (ed.).  John Paul II:  Chronicle of a Remarkable Life.  DK Publishing, 2000.

Malinski, Mieczyslaw.  Pope John Paul II: The Life of Karol Wojtyla.  New York:  Seabury Press, 1979.

Maneli, Mieczyslaw.  "John Paul II:  The Universal Pole."  The Humanist 47 (1987): 26-27+.

McInerny, Ralph.  "The Nunc Dimittis of John Paul II."  Catholic Dossier (May/June 2001).

Meagher, Patrick.  Perhaps, I love you more:  Why millions love John Paul II (a collection of pope stories).  Kemptville, Ontario:  Veterans Publications, 2002.

Negri, Maxine.  "Pope John Paul II and Freedom."  Humanist 47/5 (Sept/Oct 1987): 23-26.

Noonan, PeggyJohn Paul the Great.  New York: Viking Penguin, 2003.

Noonan, Peggy.  "Man of Mystery:  The Pope Changes the Rosary."  Wall Street Journal, 18 October 2002.

O'Brien, Darcy. The Hidden Pope: The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Is Changing the Relationship between Catholics and Jews. G.K. Hall & Co., 1998.

Parker, Michael.  Priest of the World's Destiny:  John Paul II.  Goleta, CA:  Queenship Publishing.

Parks, Deborah.  John Paul II:  The Pope from Poland [Gateway Biograph].  Millbrook Press, 2002.

Perry, Tim (ed.).  The Legacy of John Paul II:  An Evangelical Perspective.  IVP Academic, November 2007.

Sullivan, Robert.  Pope John Paul II Life: A Tribute.  Bullfinch Press, 2000.

Svidercoschi, Gian Franco.  Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of John Paul II.  Liguori, 2003.

Szulc, Tad. Pope John Paul II: The Biography. New York: Pocket Books, 1996.

commentary by George Weigel.  "The Biography That Might Have Been."  Crisis (June 1995).

Walsh, Mary Ann (ed.).  John Paul II: A Light for the World.  Sheed & Ward, October 2003.

Weigel, George. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1999.

Weigel, George.  [various reflections upon the death of John Paul II]

Wolfe, Rinna.  The Singing Pope:  The Story of Pope John Paul II.  Seabury Press, 1980.

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Writings of John Paul II

A Pilgrim Pope:  Messages for the World.  Edited by Cardinal Achille Silvestrini.  Gramercy Press, November 2003.

Addresses of the Holy Father (speeches to various groups or on particular occasions):

Breakfast with the Pope: 120 Daily Readings.  Gramercy, August 2003.

"Catechesis on the Creed" series [collections of talks from the Holy Father's general audiences]. Boston: Pauline Books and Media:

"Catholic Thought from Lublin" series (published by Peter Lang):

The Collected Plays and Writings on Theater. Translated with introductions by Boleslaw Taborski. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.

Collected Poems.  Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz.  New York: Random House, 1987.

Compilations of papal talks & writings:

Crossing the Threshold of Hope. New York: Random House, 1995.  [on-line edition]

The Encyclicals in Everyday Language, edited by Joseph G. Donders.  Orbis Books, 2001.

The Encyclicals of John Paul II, edited with introductions by J. Michael Miller, CSB.  Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 1996.

reviewed by Gloria Zuniga in Markets & Morality, 1/1 (March 1998).

Ethics and Morality (Catholic Thought from Lublin).  New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

Faith According to St. John of the Cross. Translated by Jordan Aumann.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1981.

Fruitful and Responsible Love (address of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, with selected responses, at an international congress on the 10th anniversary of Humanae Vitae).  New York: Seabury Press, 1979. 

General Audience texts:

Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love.  Edited by Joseph Durepos.  Loyola Press, April 2003.

Holy Father, Sacred Heart:  The Complete Collection of John Paul II's Writings on the Greatest Catholic Devotion.  By Carl J. Moell.  Crossroad/Herder& Herder, August 2004.

John Paul II:  A Reader, edited by Gerald O'Collins, Daniel Kendall, and Jeffrey LaBelle. Paulist Press, November 2007.

Love and Responsibility. Tr. H.T. Willetts. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994.

click here for a website dedicated to the teachings in the work!

Love and Responsibility:  A Simplified Version by Monsignor Vincent M. Walsh.  Key of David Publications.

Make Room for the Mystery of God: Visit of John Paul II to the USA, 1995. Boston: Pauline Books and Media.

Memory and Identity:  Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium.  Rizzoli, 2005.

Mysteries of Light:  Meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary with John Paul II.  Liguori Publications.

on Israel, the Holocaust, and Judaism (Anti-Defamation League)

Pilgrimage speeches (texts from various papal journeys):

Quotable John Paul II: Words of Wisdom, Faith, Solidarity, and Salvation by and about John Paul II, a Pope for the 20th Century and the New Millennium.  Compiled by Mike Towle.  Towlehouse Publications, 2003.

Psalms and Canticles:  Meditations and Catechesis on the Psalms and Canticles of Morning Prayer.  London: Catholic Truth Society, 2004.

Radiation of Fatherhood (drama, 1964)

Roman Triptych: Meditations (The Poetry of John Paul II).  Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz.  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003.

Sign of Contradiction. New York: Crossroad, 1979.

Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of Vatican II. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980.

Spiritual Advice from John Paul II:  365 Days of Inspiration.  Boston: Pauline Books & Media, 2003.

Springtime of Evangelization (texts of the Pope's addresses to American Catholics). San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999.

"Subjectivity and the Irreducible in Man."  Analecta Husserliana 7 (1978): 107-114.

Testimony of the Cross:  Meditations and Prayers of John Paul II.  Liguori Publications, 2002.

The Acting Person [Analecta Husserliana, vol. 10]. Tr. A. Potocki. Boston: Reidel, 1979.

The Jeweler's Shop.  Ignatius Press, 1992.

The Loving Heart.  Atria Books, 2004.

The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II. Translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz. New York: Random House, 1994.

"The Structure of Self-Determination as the Core of the Theory of the Person."  In Tommaso D'Aquino nel suo Settimo Centenario: Atti del Congresso Internazaionale (Roma/Napoli: 17-24 Aprile 1974).  Napoli: Edizioni Domenicane Italiane, 1978.

The Theology of the Body according to John Paul II: Human Love in the Divine Plan. Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1997.

The Theology of Marriage and Celibacy. Boston: St. Paul Editions, 1986.

The Way to Christ: Spiritual Exercises. San Francisco: Harper, 1994.

The Word Made Flesh:  The Meaning of the Christmas Season.  Translated by Leslie Wearne.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1985.

Way of the Cross.  Pauline Books & Media, 2001.

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on the Thought of John Paul II

General / Theology / Collections

Allen-Shore, Lena.  Building Bridges: Pope John Paul II and the Horizon of Life. Cathedral Foundation Press, 2003.

Bauerschmidt, Frederick C.  "Incarnation, Redemption, and the Character of God."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 459-472.

Beabout, Gregory (ed.). A Celebration of the Thought of John Paul II [on the occasion of the papal visit to St. Louis]. St. Louis University Press, 1999.

Biffi, Giacomo. John Paul II: A Panorama of His Teachings. New York: New City Press, 1989.

Buttiglione, Rocco.  Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II.  Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdman, 1998.

reviewed by Gregory Gronbacher in Markets & Morality 2/1 (Spring 1999).

Carmody, John. "The Encyclical Theology of Pope John Paul II." Public Lecture (Warren Lecture Series in Catholic Studies). University of Tulsa, 18 March 1990.

Casarella, Peter.  "Contemplating Christ through the Eyes of Mary:  The Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginia Mariae and the New Myteries of Light."  Pro Ecclesia 14/2 (Spring 2005): 161-173.

Dulles, Avery.  "John Paul II and the Advent of the New Millennium."  America 173/19 (12/9/95): 915.

Dulles, Avery. The Splendor of Faith: The Theological Vision of Pope John Paul II. New York: Crossroad, 1999; revised & updated edition, Herder & Herder, 2003.

reviewed by Michael Therrian in Religion & Liberty 11/3 (2001).

Dulles, Avery.  Truth as the Ground of Freedom: A Theme from John Paul II (Occasional Papers, no. 4).  Acton Institute, 1995.

Fischer, Heinz Joachim, et al.  John Paul II: A Pope for Freedom.  Harry Abrams, Inc., 2004.

Freddoso, Alfred.  "The Church and Art."

Frossard, Andre.  "Be Not Afraid!":  Pope John Paul II Speaks Out on His Life, His Beliefs, and His Inspiring Vision for Humanity.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.

George, Francis Cardinal.  "The Pope speaks about God: John Paul II as theologian."  The Catholic New World (10/11/98).

Glendon, Mary Ann. "The Pope's New Feminism." Crisis (March 1997).

Gneuhs, Geoffrey (ed.). The Legacy of Pope John Paul II: His Contribution to Catholic Thought. New York: Crossroad, 2000.

Kosicki, George W.  John Paul II: The Great Mercy Pope.  Stockbridge, MA: John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy, 2001.

Koterski, Joseph and John Conley (eds.).  Creed and Culture:  Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II.  Philadelphia, PA:  St. Joseph's University Press, 2004

John Paul II - A Light to for the World:  Essays and Reflections on the Papacy of John Paul II.  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003.

Johnson, Paul. Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration. New York: St. Martins, 1981.

Journalists of Reuters.  Pope John Paul II: Reaching Out Across Borders.  Reuters Prentice Hall, 2003.

Kaczor, Christopher. "John Paul II on the Laity." Catholic Dossier (July-August 1996).

Kelly, George A.  Crisis of Authority: John Paul II and the American Bishops.  New York: Regnery, 1982.

Koterski, Joseph (ed.).  Creed and Culture: Jesuit Studies of Pope John Paul II.  St. Joseph's University Press, May 2004.

Lapierre, Francois.  Be Not Afraid: Pope John Paul II Speaks to a New Generation, World Youth Day 1985-2002.  Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 2002.

Linker, Damon.  "John Paul II, Intellectual."  Policy Review #103.

McCarthy, Bill.  The Holy Spirit in the Writings of Pope John Paul II.  McKees Rocks, PA: St. Andrews Productions, 2001.

McDermott, John (ed.). The Thought of John Paul II: A Collection of Essays and Studies. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1991.

McDermott, John and John Gavin (eds.).  John Paul II on the Body:  Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial.  [Festschrift Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ.] Philadelphia, PA: St. Joseph's University Press, 2007.

Nachef, Antoine. The Mystery of the Trinity in the Theological Thought of Pope John Paul II [American University Studies. Series VII, Theology and Religion, vol. 211]. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Neuhaus, Richard J.  "John Paul II."  Christian History 19/1 (2000): 34-36.

Neuhaus, Richard J. "The Liberalism of John Paul II." First Things 73 (May 1997):16-21.

Oddie, William (ed.).  John Paul the Great:  Maker of the Post-Conciliar Church.  London:  Catholic Truth Society, 2003.

Quade, Quentin (ed.). The Pope and Revolution: John Paul II Confronts Liberation Theology. Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1982.

Ruffini, Felici.  "The Healthcare Ministry and the Priesthood of John Paul II."  Dolentium Hominum - Church and Health in the World [Journal of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers], n. 20 - 1992 (n. 2), pp. 73ss.

Saint-Paul, Brian.  "John Paul the Great, 1920-2005."  Crisis:  Politics, Culture and the Church, 23/5 (May 2005)

Saward, John. Christ Is the Answer: The Christ-Centered Teaching of Pope John Paul II. New York: Alba House, 1995.

Schumacher, Evelyn Ann.  An Undivided Heart:  Pope John Paul II on the Deeper Realities of the Consecrated Life.  Chicago, IL: Institute on Religious Life, 2002.

Weigel, George. "John Paul II -- Preparing the 21st Century." Crisis (November 1997).

Weigel, George. "The Pope in America." Crisis (March 1996).

Weigel, George. "Roman Catholicism in the Age of John Paul II." Lecture at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, on 2 December 1996.

Weinandy, Thomas.  The Wisdom of John Paul II:  A Summary.  London: Catholic Truth Society, 2001.

Whitehead, Kenneth (ed.).  John Paul II - Witness to Truth [proceedings of the 23rd annual convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars].  South Bend, IN:  St. Augustine Press 2001.

Williams, Thomas D. "Values, Virtues, and John Paul II." First Things 72 (April 1997): 29-32.

Wintz, Jack.  A Retreat with Pope John Paul II: Be Not Afraid.  St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2001.

Zaleski, Philip.  "The Saints of John Paul II."  First Things 161 (March 2006): 28-32.

Zieba, Maclej. The Surprising Pope: Understanding the Thought of John Paul II [Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium, 341]. Trans. Karolina Weening. Lexington Books, 2000.

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Congregation for the Clergy.  Videoconference on "John Paul II:  XXV Years of Pontificate."  29 October 2003.

Crisis magazine, commemorative edition, John Paul the Great 1920-2005 (May 2005):

de Souza, Raymond.  "Two Popes."  First Things, #136 (October 2003): 36-41.

Johnson, Daniel.  "The Good Pope."  American Spectator 38/5 (June 2005): 26-32.

Marton, Kati.  "The Paradoxical Pope."  The Atlantic Monthly 245/5 (May 1980).

Moynihan, Robert.  "John Paul II: Servant of the Servants of God."  Inside the Vatican 4 (Oct 1996): 8-18.

Neuhaus, Richard J. "Houses of Worship: Twenty Years and Counting -- The Meaning of John Paul II's Remarkable Papacy -- So Far." Wall Street Journal (October 16, 1998).

Noonan, Peggy.  "John Paul the Great."  Wall Street Journal, 2 August 2002.

Novak, Michael.  "A Pope and His Critics."  National Review, 26 July 2002.

Pro Ecclesia magazine, Symposium:  A Tribute to John Paul II, vol. 14, no. 3 (Summer 2005):

Proctor, Robert E.  "A Farewell to Remember."  Commoweal 132/11 (6/30/05): 19-25.

Schall, James.  "Of Inquisitors and Pontiffs:  Criticizing John Paul II."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review (June 1981).

Smith, William. "The Magisterium of Pope John Paul II." Catholic Dossier (July-August 1996).

Thavis, John.  "John Paul's Quarter-Century."  America 189/10 (10/6/03): 8-12.

Weigel, George.  "Papacy and Power."  First Things 110 (February 2001): 18-25.

see also "The Future of the Papacy: A Symposium."  First Things 111 (March 2001): 28-36.

Weigel, George. "Prepared to Lead." Crisis (October 1998): 12-17.

Wilken, Robert Louis and Susan Ross.  "A Measure of Greatness."  Commonweal 130/17 (10/10/03): 11-13.

Wright, Robin.  "What Would the World Be Like Without Him?" The Atlantic Monthly 274/1 (July 1994): 24-32.

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Allen-Shore, Lena.  Building Bridges: Pope John Paul II and the Horizon of Life.  Baltimore: Cathedral Foundation Press, 2003.

Baker, Kenneth.  "The Pope of Truth."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review (July 1999).

Barron, Robert.  "The Christian Humanism of Karol Wojtyla and Thomas Aquinas."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 529-542.

Buttiglione, Rocco. Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man Who Became Pope John Paul II. Translated by Paolo Guietti and Francesca Murphy. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997.

Byrnes, James T.  John Paul II and Educating for Life:  Moving Toward a Renewal of Catholic Educational Philosophy.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing, 2002.

Clark, Mary.  "The Personalism of Karol Wojtyla."  In Personalism Revisited: Its Proponents and Critics [Value Inquiry Book Series, 124].  Edited by Thomas Buford.  Rodopi Bv Editions, 2002, pp. 325-343.

Colosi, Peter.  "John Paul II and Christian Personalism vs. Peter Singer and Utilitarianism:  Two Radically Opposed Conceptions of the Nature and Meaning of Suffering."  Conference presentation (2004).

Dailey, Thomas.  "Being, Becoming and Believing:  The Adventure of Phenomenology with John Paul II."  Edith Stein Lecture at Immaculata University, 10/12/05.

DeMarco, Donald.  "John Paul II as Philosopher."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review (May 2004): 58-61.

Dinan, Stephen A.  "The Phenomenological Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla."  New Scholasticism 55 (1981): 317-330.

Doran, Kevin P. Solidarity: A Synthesis of Personalism and Communism in the Thought of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (American University Studies). New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Dougherty, Jude.  "The Thomistic Element in the Social Philosophy of John Paul II."  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 (1986): 156-165.

Dulles, Avery.  "John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomism."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 443-458.

Garcia, Laura.  "The Primacy of Person:  Edith Stein and John Paul II."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1:2 (Summer 1997).

Hanink, James G.  "Karol Wojtyla: Personalism, Intransivity, and Character."  Communio 33 (Summer 1996): 244-251.

Hebblethwaite, Peter.  "Pope John Paul II as Philosopher and Poet."  Heythrop Journal 21 (1980): 123-136.

Koechler, Hans.  "The Dialectical Conception of Self-determination:  Reflections on the Systematic Approach of Karol Wojtyla."  Analacta Husserliana 6 (1977): 75-80.

Koechler, Hans.  "The Phenomenology of Karol Wojtyla:  On the Problem of the Phenomenological Foundation of Anthropology."  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42 (1982): 326-334.

Kupczak, Jarosaw. Destined for Liberty: The Human Person in the Philosophy of Karol Wojtya / John Paul II. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000.

Lawler, Ronald D. The Christian Personalism of John Paul II [The John Paul Synthesis / Trinity College Symposium I]. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1982.

Lefebure, Leo D.  "John Paul II - The Philosopher Pope."  Christian Century (February 15, 1995).

McGovern, Arthur.  "Marxism, Liberation Theology, and John Paul II."  Logos: Philosophic Issues in Christian Perspective 5 (1984): 5-24.

McNerney, John.  Footbridge Towards the Other:  An Introduction to the Philosophical Thought of John Paul II.  Edinburgh:  T&T Clark, 2003.

Min, Anselm.  "John Paul the Second, Anthropology of Concrete Totality."  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 (1984): 120-129.

Modras, Ronald.  "The Thomistic Personalism of Pope John Paul II."  Modern Scholasticism 59 (1982): 117-127.

Monnig, Matthew.  Freedom That Transcends Autonomy:  Karol Wojtyla's Philosophy of Human Freedom.  Dissertation, Boston College, 1997.

Murphy, Julie.  "'Marxism, Liberation Theology, and John Paul II': A Critical Assessment."  Logos: Philosophic Issues in Christian Perspective 5 (1984): 25-28.

Negri, Maxine.  "Pope John Paul II and Freedom."  The Humanist 47 (1987): 23-25, 42.

Novak, Michael.  "The Christian Philosophy of John Paul II."  America (October 1997).

Pattee, Daniel.  "From Emotional to Volitional Consciousness:  Scheler, Wojtyla, and the Conversion of St. Francis."  Fides Quarens Intellectum 1/1 (2001): 119-154.

Peters, Michael.  "Orthos Logos, Recta Ratio:  Pope John Paul II, Nihilism, and Postmodern Philosophy."  Journal for Christian Theological Research, 5:1 (2000).

Ramos, Alice.  "Karol Wojtyla-John Paul II's Idea of Ultimate Reality and Meaning."  Ultimate Reality and Meaning 18/2 (1995): 102-118.

Reimers, Adrian J.  An Analysis of the Concepts of Self-Fulfillment and Self-Realization in the Thought of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II.  Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Schmitz, Kenneth. At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II [Michael J. McGivney Lectures]. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1993.

Seifert, Josef.  "Karol Cardinal Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) as Philosopher and the Cracow/Lublin School of Philosophy."  Aletheia: An International Journal of Philosophy 2 (1981): 130-199.

Sherwin, Michael.  "Theology of Truth and Freedom:  A Dissident Phenomenology in a Thomistic Anthropology."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 543-568.

Shivanandan, Mary. Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II's Anthropology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999.

Weigel, George.  "At the Center of the Human Drama."  The Catholic Difference (syndicated column)

Weigel, George.  "John Paul II:  A Life for Life."  Human Life Review 28 (Winter 2002): 39-53.

Weigel, George. "John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism." First Things 98 (December 1999): 31-36.

Weigel, George.  "Wojtyla's Walk among the Philosophers."  Address at a conference on "The Phenomenology of John Paul II" at Duquesne University, 1 December 2006.

Williams, George H. The Mind of John Paul II: Origins of His Thought and Action. New York: Seabury, 1981.

Woznicki, Andrew. A Christian Humanism: Karol Wojtyla's Existential Personalism. New Britain, CT: Mariel Publications, 1980.

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Ashley, Benedict.  "John Paul II:  Theologian of the Body of the Acting Person."  Josephinum Journal of Theology 7:1-2 (2000): 31-45.

Bateson, Catherine. "On Human Dignity: The Ugandan AIDS Epidemic and John Paul II's Theology of the Body."  Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture, 2003 conference.

Bushman, Douglas.  "The Christ-centered Anthropology of Gaudium et spes in Light of Developments in Pope John Paul II."  Catholic Dossier (August 2000).

Cokeley, Meghan.  "Shame, Lust, and the Human Body after the Fall:  A Comparison of St. Augustine and John Paul II."  Nova et Vetera 2/2 (2004):

Coughlin, John J.  "Pope John Paul II and the Dignity of the Human Being.  Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 27/1 (Fall 2003): 65-80.

Curran Sweeney, Kathleen.  "The Perfection of Women as Maternal and the Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9:2 (Spring 2006): 129-153.

Dinan, Stephen A.  "The Phenomenological Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla."  New Scholasticism 55 (1981): 317-330.

Dulles, Avery.  "John Paul II and the Mystery of the Human Person."  America 190/3 (February 2, 2004): 10-22.

Durkin, Mary.  Feast of Love:  Pope John Paul II on Human Intimacy.  Loyola University Press, 1983.

Fabrycky, Laura Merzig.  "Theology of the Body:  Pope John Paul II on the Biblical Foundations of Marriage and Sexuality."  Books and Culture (Sept/Oct 2004).

Grasso, Kenneth L.  "Saving Modernity from Itself: John Paul II on Human Dignity, 'the Whole Truth about Man,' and the Modern Quest for Freedom."  In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for Our Times.  Edited by Robert Kraynak and Glenn Tinder.  University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, pp. 207-236.

Hart, David B.  "The Anti-Theology of the Body."  The New Atlantis 9 (Summer 2005): 65-73.

Hogan, Richard.  "An Introduction to John Paul II's Theology of the Body" (web site)

Hogan, Richard.  The Theology of the Body in John Paul II:  What It Means, Why It Matters.  Word Among Us Press, January 2007.

Jenson, Robert W.  "Reading the Body."  The New Atlantis 9 (Summer 2005): 73-82.

Kupczak, Jarosaw. Destined for Liberty: The Human Person in the Philosophy of Karol Wojtya / John Paul II. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000.

Latkovic, Mark.  "Pope John Paul II's 'Theology of the Body' and the Significance of Sexual Shame in Light of the Body's 'Nuptial Meaning':  Some Implications for Bioethics and Sexual Ethics."  Nova et Vetera 2 (2004):

May, William E.  "Nakedness, the Body, and Sexual Shame in the Thought of Pope John Paul II," Fidelity 4.8 (July 1985) 25-28.

McGovern, Thomas.  "The Christian Anthropology of John Paul II:  An Overview."  Josephinum Journal of Theology 8/1 (Winter/Spring 2001): 132-147.

Min, Anselm.  "John Paul the Second, Anthropology of Concrete Totality."  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 (1984): 120-129.

Mondin, Battista.  "The Christian Humanism of John Paul II."  Melita Theologica 31/1 (1980): 10-22.

Novak, Michael.  "The Embodied Self."  First Things (February 2003).

Reimers, Adrian.  "Human Suffering and John Paul II's Theology of the Body."  Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture, 2003 conference. Nova et Vetera 2 (2004).

Rousseau, Mary F.  "John Paul II and Theology of the Body."  Chicago Studies 39/2 (Summer 2000): 162-175.

Schall, James V. "The Pope on the Human Person." Catholic Dossier (Jan/Feb 1997).

Shivanandan, Mary. "John Paul II's Theology of the Body." Catholic Dossier (Jan-Feb 1999)

Sri, Edward.  Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love:  Practical Insights from John Paul II's Love & Responsibility.  Servant Books, August 2007.

Theology of the Body - online resource center

Torode, Sam.  Purity of Heart: Reflections on Lust and Love: Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language.  New City Press, June 2004.

West, Christopher.  "The New Language:  A Crash Course in the Theology of the Body."  Crisis (December 2004): 22-26.

West, Christopher.  Theology of the Body, Explained:  A Commentary on John Paul II's Gospel of the Body.  Pauline Books, 2003.

Woznicki, Andrew N.  The Dignity of Man as a Person:  Essays on the Christian Humanism of His Holiness John Paul II.  Society of Christ, 1987.

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Caldecott, Leonie.  "Sincere Gift: The Pope's 'New Feminism'."  Communio 23 (Spring 1996): 64-81.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke.  "Women and the Dilemma of Equality."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6:4 (Fall 2003): 35-50.

Hayden Lemmons, R. Mary.  "Equality, Gender, and John Paul II."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5:3 (Summer 2002): 111-130.

Porter, Lawrence.  "Gender in Theology: The Example of John Paul II's Mulieris Dignitatem."  Gregorianum 77/1 (1996): 97-131.

Smith, Janet.  "Pope John Paul II, Feminists, Women, and the Church."  Catholic Dossier (Nov/Dec 1995).

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Brennan, William.  "Pope John Paul II on Confronting the Language of the Culture of Death."  Catholic Social Scientist Review 9 (2004).

Dailey, Thomas. "Toward a Culture of Truth: Higher Education and the Thought of Pope John Paul II." Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3:2 (Spring 2000): 145-164.

Dennehy, Raymond.  "Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right."  Telos 134 (Spring 2006): 31-63.

Dulles, Avery.  "John Paul II as a Theologian of Culture."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1:2 (Summer 1997).

Griffin, David.  "The Cultural Vision of Pope John Paul II."  Varieties of Postmodern Theology.  Edited by Joe Holland.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989, pp. 95-127.

Huebsch, Bill.  The Lord's Day:  Reflections on Dies Domini, the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II.  Twenty-Third Publications,  January 2007.

Mullaney, Patrick J.  "John Paul II and America's Laws on Life."  Human Life Review 31/3 (Summer 2005): 78-96.

Nowaczyk, Miroslaw.  "John Paul II's Concept of Culture."  Dialectics and Humanism 10 (1983): 169-182.

Schmiesing, Kevin.  "Freedom and Culture in the Americas: Reflections on Ecclesia in America."  Josephinum Journal of Theology 8:2 (2001): 119-129.

Symposium ("from a Logical point of view") on the Letter to Artists published in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 5:3 (Summer 2002): 207-228:

Weigel, George. "John Paul II and the Priority of Culture." First Things 80 (February 1998): 19-25.

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Bland, Joan. The Pastoral Vision of John Paul II. Franciscan Press, 1982.

Burrows, William R.  "Mission and Missiology in the Pontificate of John Paul II."  International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30 (Jan 2006): 3-8.

Cassarella, Peter. "Evangelization and the Culture of Death." In The Church's Mission of Evangelization: Essays in Honor of His Excellency the Most Reverend Agostino Cacciavillan. Edited by William E. May. Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 1996, pp. 103-128.

Dias, Ivan.  "The Missions in the Pontificate of Pope John Paul II."  Euntes Docete 57/1 (2004): 53-65. 

Dulles, Avery.  "A Eucharistic Church: The Vision of John Paul II."  America 191/20 (December 20, 2004): 8-12.

Dulles, Avery.  "The Ecclesiology of John Paul II."  Origins 28 (April 22, 1999): 759-763.

Dulles, Avery. "The Prophetic Humanism of John Paul II." America 169/12 (October 23, 1993): 6-11.

Hebblethwaite, Peter.  Pope John Paul II and the Church.  Theological Book Service, 1995.

Hogan, Richard M. and John M. LeVoir.  Faith for Today:  Pope John Paul II's Catechetical Teaching.  Boston: Pauline Books & Media.

Hoopes, Tom.  "Groundswell:  The Pope, the New Movements, and the Church."  Crisis (December 2004): 32-38.

Houck, William and Peter Williamson and Ralph Martin (eds.). John Paul II and the New Evangelization: How You Can Bring the Good News to Others. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995.

Kelly, George.  "The Battle for the Catholic Campus."  Catholic World Report (January 1995).

Kelly, George. Keeping the Church Catholic with John Paul II. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993.

McSheffery, Daniel.  "John Paul II and New Evangelization."  Priest 52 (July 1996): 43-46.

Melady, Margaret. The Rhetoric of Pope John Paul II: The Pastoral Visit as a New Vocabulary of the Sacred. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Moget, Francis.  "Pope John Paul II - A Model of Reconciliation in the World Today."  Indian Journal of Spirituality 14/2 (2001): 181-187.

Mookenthottam, Antony.  "The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Teachings of Pope John Paul II."  Indian Journal of Spirituality 14/2 (2001): 163-180.

Morerod, Charles.  "John Paul II's Ecclesiology and St. Thomas Aquinas."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 473-502.

Mroso, Agapit J.  The Church in Africa and the New Evangelization: A Theologico-Pastoral Study of the Orientations of John Paul II.  Roma, 1995.

Nachef, Antoine.  Mary's Pope:  John Paul II, Mary, and the Church Since Vatican II.  Sheed & Ward, 2000.

O'Reilly, Kevin J.  Recovering the Authentic Concept of Authority:  Pope John Paul II and the Infallibility of the Ordinary Universal Magisterium.  (disseration)

Pottmeyer, Hermann Josef.  "The Pope as Church Critic?  John Paul II's Little Noticed Impulses toward Church Reform."  Pro Ecclesia 14/3 (Summer 2005): 276-286.

Schumacher, Evelyn A.  An Undivided Heart:  Pope John Paul II on the Deeper Realities of the Consecrated Life.  Chicago: Institute on Religious Life, 2002.

Udoidem, S. Iniobong.  Pope John Paul II on Inculturation:  Theory and Practice.  University Press of America, 1996.

Weigel, George.  "Parsing the 'New Evangelization'."  The Catholic Difference (syndicated column)

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Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M.  "Pope John Paul II and Islam."  Muslim World 88/3-4 (1998): 279-296.

Cassidy, Edward Idris. "That They May All Be One: The Imperatives and Prospects of Christian Unity." First Things 69 (January 1997): 33-38.

David, Dalin.  John Paul II and the Jewish People:  A Christian-Jewish Dialogue.  Rowman & Littlefield, November 2007.

Fisher, Eugene and Leon Klenicki (eds.).  Pope John Paul II on Jews and Judaism: 1979-1986.  U.S. Catholic Conference, 1987.

George, Francis. Inculturation and Ecclesial Communion: Culture and Church in the Teachings of Pope John Paul II. Rome: Urbaniana, 1990.

Hotchkin, John F. and John B. Sheerin (eds.).  Addresses and Homilies on Ecumenism, 1978-1980.  United States Catholic Conference, 1981.

Hutter, Reinhard and Theodor Dieter (eds.). Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics: Protestants Engage Pope John Paul II's Moral Encyclicals. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998.

Karkkainen, Veli-Matti.  "Pneumatology as a New Ecumenical 'Model'?"  Ecumenical Trends 27 (Oct 1998): 10-16.

Klutz, Charles.  "Full Communion -- Ecclesial Unity."  Ecumenical Trends 27 (Feb 1998): 14-16.

Landau, Yehezekel and Michael McGarry.  John Paul II in the Holy Land: Christian and Jewish Perspectives. New York: Stimulus Books/Paulist Press, 2005.

Macaulay, Ranald.  The Counter-Reformation of Pope John Paul II?  Cambridge:  Cambridge Papers, 2000.

Miller, J. Michael.  "Pope John Paul's Agenda for Christian Unity."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review (February 1997).

Modras, Ronald.  "Pope John Paul II, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Antisemitism: Some Current Problems and Perceptions Affecting Catholic-Jewish Relations."  Journal of Ecumenical Studies 20 (1983): 630-639.

Nilson, Jon.  "John Paul II, Ecumenist."  Commonweal 122/13 (7/14/95): 5-7.

Pitstick, Rodrik.  The Christian Humanistic Approach to Religious Pluralism of John Paul II.  (disseration)

Radano, John.  "Towards Rapprochement on the Doctrine of Justification: Pope John Paul II's Contribution."  Ecumenical Trends 27 (June 1998): 10-14.

Raymaker, John.  Empowering the Lonely Crowd:  Pope John Paul II, Lonergan, and Japanese Buddhism.  University Press of America, October 2003.

Roberson, Ronald.  "The Pope Looks Toward Ukraine."  America (May 14, 2001).

Sherwin, Byron L. and Harold Kasimow (eds.). John Paul II and Interreligious Dialogue [Faith Meets Faith Series]. Foreword by Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.

Wiesel, Elie.  "Pope John Paul II: Pointing the Way to Reconciliation."  Time 163/17 (4/26/04): 68.

Whitehead, Kenneth.  "The Ecumenism of John Paul II."  Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, 24/4 (Fall 2001): 5-16.

Wistrich, Robert S.  "John Paul II on Jews and Judaism."  Partisan Review 67/1 (2000): 100-111.

Yarnold, Edward.  "Mutual Enrichment: John Paul II's Ecumenical Philosophy."  OChr 32/3 (1996): 212-221.

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Cessario, Romanus.  "Conditional Stewardship of Life: A Moral Principle of John Paul II."  In Kevin McMahon (ed.).  Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care [Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by the John Cardinal Krol Chair of Moral Theology, April 19-21, 2002].  Wynnewood (PA):  St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004, pp. 120-138.

Conley, John J. and Joseph W. Koterski (eds.). Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Doctrine of John Paul II. New York: Fordam University Press, 1999.

Crosby, John.  "Karol Wojtyla on the Objectivity and the Subjectivity of Moral Obligation."  In Richard Francis and Jane Francis (eds.).  Christian Humanism:  International Perspectives.  New York: Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 27-36.

Curran, Charles.  The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II [Moral Traditions Series].  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2005.

Curran, Charles and Richard McCormick (eds.).  John Paul II and Moral Theology [Readings in Moral Theology, no. 10].  New York: Paulist Press, 1998.

Dulles, Avery. "John Paul II and the Truth about Freedom." First Things 55 (August-September 1995): 36-41.

Hutter, Reinhard and Theodor Dieter (eds.). Ecumenical Ventures in Ethics: Protestants Engage Pope John Paul II's Moral Encyclicals. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998.

Kalscheur, Gregory.  "John Paul II, John Courtney Murray, and the Relationship between Civil Law and Moral Law."  Journal of Catholic Social Thought 1:2 (Summer 2004): 231-276.

May, William E.  "Curran's Attack on John Paul II Rebutted."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review 106/6 (March 2006): 8-16

McMahon, Kevin (ed.).  Catholic Moral Teaching in the Pontificate of John Paul II [Proceedings of an International Symposium celebrating the 25th aniversary of John Paul II as Pope, October 4, 2003].  Wynnewood (PA): St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004.

Mullaney, Patrick.  "John Paul II and America's Laws on Life."  Human Life Review 31/3 (Summer 2005): 235-242.

Mulligan, Kenneth.  "Pope John Paul II and Catholic Opinion Toward the Death Penalty and Abortion."  Social Science Quarterly 87/3 (Sept 2006): 739-753.

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Novak, Michael.  "The Fall of the Progressive Church."  National Review On-Line (May 2, 2002).

Ouellet, Marc.  "The Mystery of Easter and the Culture of Death."  Communio 23 (Spring 1996): 5-15.

Rice, Charles.  "Social Order and Objective Truth."  The Wanderer (July 28, 1994).

Rico, Herminio.  John Paul II and the Legacy of Dignitatis Humanae [Moral Traditions Series].  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002.

Schall, James (ed.)Sacred in All Its Forms.  Daughters of St. Paul, 1984.

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Jeffreys, Derek S.  "Euthanasia and John Paul II's 'Silent Language of Profound Sharing of Affection': Why Christians Should Care about Peter Singer."  Christian Bioethics 7/3 (Dec 2001): 359-379.

May, William E.  "Pope John Paul II and Bioethics:  Bodily Life as Integral to the Human Person."

McCartney, James. Unborn Persons: Pope John Paul II and the Abortion Debate [American University Studies, VII: Theology and Religion, vol. 21]. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.

Mindling, J. Daniel.  "Pope John Paul II:  Dying with Dignity."  USCCB.

Paris, John J., James F. Keenan, and Kenneth R. Himes.  "Quaestio Disputata:  Did John Paul II's Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition?"  Theological Studies 67/1 (March 2006): 163-168.

Shannon, Thomas and James J. Walter.  "Reply to Professors Paris, Keenan, and Himes."  Theological Studies 67/1 (March 2006): 169-174.

Tollefson, Christopher (ed.)  John Paul II's Contribution to Catholic Bioethics [Catholic Studies in Bioethics, 84].  Springer, 2004.

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Christiansen, Drew.  "Hawks, Doves, and John Paul II."  America 1887/4 (August 12, 2002).

Christiansen, Drew.  "Peacemaking and the Use of Force: Behind the Pope's Stringent Just-War Teaching."  America 180 (May 15, 1999): 13-18.

Czemarnik, Adam.  "A Marxist's View on the Philosophy of Peace Advanced by John Paul II."  Dialectics and Humanism 14/1 (1987): 209-217.

Juros, Helmut.  "Truth and Peace in the Ethics of John Paul II."  Dialectics and Humanism 13 (1986): 41-47.

O'Connor, Bernard.  Papal Diplomacy: John Paul II and the Culture of Peace.  St. Augustine's Press, 2004.

Portier, William.  "Are We Really Serious When We Ask God to Deliver Us from War?  The Catechism and the Challenge of Pope John Paul II."  Communio 23 (Spring 1996): 47-63.

Rajecki, Robert.  "Towards a Theology of Peace: The Peace Doctrine of John Paul II."  Dialectics and Humanism 14/1 (1987): 201-208.

Stachowski, Zbigniew.  "Pope John Paul II's Conception of Peace."  Dialectics and Humanism 9 (1982): 97-116.

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Arroyo, Antonio (ed.).  Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key:  The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Cuban Religion [The Hispanic Theological Initiative Series, vol. 2].  University of Scranton Press, 2004.

Bethell, Tom.  "Laissez Faire Pope."  American Spectator 37/4 (May 2004): 42-43.

Catholic Church Staff.  The United Nations: A Family of Nations?  A Seminar on the Address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the United Nations Organization.  Path to Peace Foundation, 1996.

Colombo. John Paul II and World Politics: 20 Years of a Search for a New Approach, 1978-1998. Peeters, 1999.

Dennehy, Raymond.  "Liberal Democracy as a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was Right."  Telos 134 (Spring 2006): 31-63.

Echeverria, Eduardo and DonnaRose Echeverria.  "John Paul II and America's New Birth of Freedom." Josephinum Journal of Theology 6:1 (1999): 60-74.

Formicola, Jo Renee.  "The Political Legacy of Pope John Paul II."  Journal of Church and State 47/2 (Spring 2005): 235-242.

Formicola, Jo Renee.  Pope John Paul II:  Prophetic Politician.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2002.

Gillis, Chester (ed.).  The Political Papacy:  John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Their Influence.  Paradigm Press, 2006.

Hughes, John Jay.  "John Paul II and the Legacy of Dignitatis Humanae. " America 187/16 (11/18/02): 22-24.

Jeffreys, Derek S.  Defending Human Dignity: John Paul II and Political Realism.  Brazos Press, July 2004.

Klocek, David M.  The State in the Thought of Pope John Paul II (disseration).

Krolikowski, Januz. " 'My Homeland and My Nation': The Theology of the Nation in the Teaching of John Paul II During His First Visit in Poland (June 2-10, 1979," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1:2 (1997).

Martin, Malachi.  Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II versus Russian and the West for Control of the New World Order.  Touchstone Books, 1991.

Notre Dame Law School.  "Symposium on John Paul II and the Law."  Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 21/1 (2007).

Sacco, Colombo. John Paul II and World Politics: The Search for a New Approach [Canon Law Monograph Series, 2]. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.

Schall, James V. The Church, the State and Society in the Thought of John Paul II. Franciscan Press, 1982.

Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony M. (ed.).  Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key: The Pope's Visit and Civic Space for Bucan Religion [Hispanic Theological Initiative Series, vol. II].  Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2001.

Szulc, Tad.  "John Paul II and Cuba."  America (11 December 1999).

Therrien, Michel.  "John Paul II's Use of the Term 'Neo-Liberalism' in Ecclesia in America."  Josephinum Journal of Theology 8:2 (2001): 130-142.

Weigel, George.  "And the Wall Came Tumbling Down: Pope John Paul II and the Collapse of Communism."  (lecture at Grove City College)

Weigel, George.  "Catholicism and Democracy in the Age of John Paul II."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 4/3 (Summer 2001): 36-64.

Weigel, George.  "Pope John Paul II and the Dynamics of History."  2000 Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs.

Weigel, George.  "The Pope in America."  Crisis (March 1996).

Weigel, George.  "The President (Reagan) and the Pope."  National Review 56/12 (6/28/2004): 23-24.

Willey, David. God's Politician: Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the New World Order. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Williams, George H. The Contours of Church and State in the Thought of John Paul II. Baylor University Press, 1983.

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Austin, Victor L.  A Christological Social Vision:  The Uses of Christ in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul II.  (disseration)

Baum, Gregory.  "The Impact of Marxism on the Thought of John Paul II."  Thought 62 (1987): 26-38.

Beigel, Gerard. Faith and Social Justice in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II [American University Studies, VII: Theology and Religion, vol. 191]. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Biffi, Franco.  The Social Gospel of Pope John Paul II:  A Guide to the Encyclicals on Human Work and the Authentic Development of Peoples.  Rome: Pontifical Lateran University, 1989.

Curran, Charles.  "The Pope's Passions."  Christian Century 120/23 (11/15/03): 28-32.

de Souza, Raymond J.  "Economics and Theology: A Wondrous Exchange."  Religion & Liberty 11/3 (2001)

de Souza, Raymond J.  "John Paul II and the Problem of Consumerism."  Religion & Liberty 9/5 (1999).

Doran, Kevin. Solidarity: A Synthesis of Personalism and Communalism in the Thought of KarolWojtyla/Pope John Paul II [American University Studies, VII]. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Finn, Daniel Rush. "The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right nor Left." Markets and Morality, 2/1 (1999): 74-87.

Finn, Daniel.  "John Paul II and the Moral Ecology of Markets."  Theological Studies 59/4 (Dec 1998): 662-680.

Gregg, Samuel. Challenging the Modern World: Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching. Lexington Books, 1999.

reviewed by Gregory Beabout in Markets & Morality 4/2 (Fall 2001)

reviewed by Richard Bayer in Religion & Liberty 11/3 (2001)

Kirwan, Christopher J.  The Role of the Person in Society:  A Critical Analysis of the Philosophical Vision of Charles Taylor as One Approach to the Application of Catholic Social Teaching as Outlined in the Encyclicals Laborem exercens, Sollicitudo rei socialis, and Centesimus annus of Pope John Paul II.  Rome: Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, 2001.

Merkle, Judith.  "Social Teaching of John Paul II."  In From the Heart of the Church:  The Catholic Social Tradition.  Collegeville, MN:  The Liturgical Press, 2004, pp. 209-238.

Migliore, Celistino.  "Twenty-Five Years of Pope John Paul II's Pontificate and Globalization."  Journal of Catholic Social Thought 2:1 (Winter 2005): 11-22.

Mott, W. King. The Third Way: Economic Justice According to John Paul II. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998.

National Review. "The Pope, Liberty, and Capitalism." Special supplement, vol. 43, no. 11 (June 24, 1991).

Neuhaus, Richard John.  "The Very Liberal John Paul II."  National Review 49/15 (8/11/97): 32-35.

Novak, Michael.  "The Social Thought of Pope John Paul II."  Chicago Studies 39/2 (Summer 2000): 144-161.

Pattee, Daniel J.  Bonaventure, John Paul II, and a Humane Economy (dissertation)

Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace.  The Social Teaching of John Paul II.  1979.

Waldstein, Michael.  "The Common Good in St. Thomas and John Paul II."  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 569-578.

Weigel, George.  "The Church's Social Doctrine in the Twenty-First Century."  LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6/2 (Spring 2003): 15-37.

Weigel, George (ed.). A New Worldly Order: John Paul II and Human Freedom. Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992.

Weigel, George.  "The Virtues of Freedom."  In George Weigel and Robert Royal (eds.).  Building the Free Society: Democracy, Capitalism, and Catholic Social Teaching.  Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1993, pp. 207-224.

Whitmore, Todd D.  "John Paul II, Michael Novak, and the Differences Between Them."  Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 21 (2001): 215-232.

Zanotti, Gabriel.  "Economy and Culture in the Thought of John Paul II."  Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1:2 (Summer 1997).

Zieba, Maciej. "The Liberalism That We Need." First Things 40 (February 1994): 23-27.

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Chorpenning, Joseph.  "John Paul II's Theology of the Mystery of the Holy Family."  Communio 28/1 (Spring 2001).

Cusick, Kevin.  "Responsible Parenthood and John Paul II."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review 104/10 (July 2004): 49-58.

Hogan, Richard M. and John M. LeVoir. Covenant of Love: Pope John Paul II on Sexuality, Marriage, and Family in the Modern World. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986.

Lipien, Ted.  Pope John Paul II's Views on Women, Marriage, and Family.  Hippocrene Books, July 2007. 

Looney, Thomas P.  "John Paul II: Defender and Theologian of the Bond."  Homiletic & Pastoral Review 104/10 (July 2004): 8-17.

May, William E.  "The Mission of Fatherhood: 'To Reveal and Relive on Earth the Very Fatherhood of God' (cf. Familiaris Consortio, 25)."  Josephinum Journal of Theology 9/1 (2002): 42-55.

May, William E.  "The Sanctity of Human Life, Marriage, and the Family in the Thought of Pope John Paul II," Annales Theologici: Rivista di Teologia del Centro Accademico Romano della Santa Croce 2.1 (1988) 83-98.

Moore, Brian.  John Paul II on the Family.  Melbourne: ACTS Publications, 1982.

Saxton, Stanley L., et al. The Changing Family: Views from Theology and the Social Sciences in the Light of the Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984.

Schu, Walter.  Marriage and the Family: The Prophetic Vision of Pope John Paul II.  NY: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 2002.

Shivanandan, Mary. Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II's Anthropology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999.

Wrenn, Michael J. (ed.). Pope John Paul II and the Family. Franciscan Press, 1982.

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Brumley, Mark. "Evolution and the Pope." Catholic Dossier (Jan-Feb 1997).

Buckley, Michael J.  "Religion and Science:  Paul Davies and John Paul II."  Theological Studies 51 (1990): 310-324.

Coyne, George, Robert J. Russell, and William Stoeger (eds.). John Paul II on Science and Religion: Reflections on the New View from Rome. Rome: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1990.

Dent, Ancilla (ed.).  Ecology and Faith: The Writings of Pope John Paul II.  Arthur James, 1997.

Devine, Donald.  "Pope John Paul II Did Not Sell Out on Evolution."  Human Events 52/47 (12/13/96): 19.

Russell, Robert and William Stoeger (eds.).  John Paul II on Science and Religion:  Reflections on the New View from Rome.  Vatican Observatory/University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.

Sherwin, Michael. "Reconciling Old Lovers: John Paul on Science and Faith." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 17/1-2 (2005): 173-183.

Zycinski, Jozef M.  "Evolution and Christian Thought in Dialog according to the Teaching of John Paul II."  Logos:  A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 9/1 (Winter 206): 13-27.

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Crosby, John F.  "The Teaching of John Paul II on the Christian Meaning of Suffering."  Christian Bioethics 2/2 (1996): 154-171.

Echeverria, Eduardo.  "The Gospel of Redemptive Suffering: Reflections on John Paul II's Salvifici Doloris," in Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil.  Edited by Peter van Inwagen.  Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004, pp. 111-147.

Kitchell, Jean-Clare.  "The Value of Human Suffering: Pope John Paul II and Karol Wojtyla."  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 60 (1986): 185-193.

Reimers, Adrian.  "Human Suffering and John Paul II's Theology of the Body."  Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture, 2003 conference. Nova et Vetera 2 (2004):

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on the Documents of John Paul II

(with reference to J. Michael Miller, CSB.  The Encyclicals of John Paul II.  Huntington, IN:  Our Sunday Visitor, 1996)

Beabout, Gregory. "Centesimus Annus Turns Ten."  Religion & Liberty 11/3 (2001).

The Business Community Responds to Centesimus Annus.  Washington, DC: Woodstock Theological Center, 1992.

Buttiglione, Rocco.  "Behind Centesimus Annus."  Religion & Liberty 1/4 (1991).

Buttiglione, RoccoThe Moral Mandate for Freedom: Reflections on Centesimus Annus.  Grand Rapids: Acton Institute, 1997.

Dulles, Avery. "Centesimus Annus and the Renewal of Culture." Markets and Morality, 2/1 (1999): 1-7.

Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames.  "Culture and the Limits of Catholicism: A Chinese Response to Centesimus Annus."  Journal of Business Ethics 12/12 (1993): 955-963.

Finn, Daniel.  "Commentary on Centesimus annus" in Kenneth Himes (ed.), Modern Catholic Social Teaching:  Commentaries and Interpretations.  Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2005, pp. 436-468.

Luckey, William.  "Centesimus Annus: A Perspective."  Faith & Reason (Winter 1991).

Mejia, Jorge Maria.  "Centesimus Annus:  An Answer to the Unknowns and Questions of our Times."  The Ecumenical Review 43 (1991): 401-410.

Pham, John-Peter (ed.). Centesimus Annus: Assessment and Perspectives for the Future of Catholic Social Doctrine [Proceedings of the International Congress on the Fifth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Encyclical Letter]. Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998.

Reed, Larry.  "Profits and Morals: A Non-Catholic Assessment of Centesimus Annus."  Religion & Liberty 1/3 (1991).

Sarah, Robert.  Culture, Democracy, and Development in the Light of Centesimus annus.  Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2000.

Schall, James.  "The Call Contained in the Being of Things:  The Import of John Paul II's Centesimus Annus."  Vital Speeches of the Day 58/7 (1/15/92): 213-217.

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