Interprets the aims and decisions of the Second Vatican Council and argues that an individual's religious faith must be a free response to the selfrevelation of God

Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of Vatican II (English and Polish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Wojtyła, Karol

POPE JOHN PAUL II

Christian Books & Bibles

Harper and Row

Easter Vigil & Other Poems

Random House]

Forty-two poems in English and one in the original Polish, all written during the present pope's years as a parish priest and Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow, deal with factory working, acting, children, love, and faith

Easter Vigil and Other Poems

Pope John Paul II's three-act verse play portrays three couples at a local jeweler's shop: one happily planning their marriage, one long-married and unhappy, and children of the two couples, about to marry but full of doubts

The Jeweler's Shop

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Describes Pope John Paul II's theater background, presents translations of his plays, and includes his essays about the nature of drama.

The Collected Plays and Writings on Theater

Humor & Entertainment

University of California Press

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to announce the publication of the first volume of the critical English edition of The Collected Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II. In conjunction with an international editorial board, the English Critical Edition will comprise 20 volumes, covering all of his writings and correspondence both in the years before and during his papacy. What makes this collection so important is that access to his writings have been a significant challenge. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, his works have been scattered and limited, or in need of a new translation. Finally, English-language audiences have faced the challenge, even in the case of published texts, of working across multiple languages and translations and of dealing with textual idiosyncrasies. The inaugural volume of this collection is Person and Act, together with related essays, which is in many respects constitutes Karol Wojtyla's most profound and well-known philosophical work. Originally published in 1969 as Osoba i czyn, this work of metaphysics and philosophy is widely influential even though it is highly challenging intellectually and has heretofore posed difficulties for translators.

Person and Act and Related Essays (The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II)

Karol, Wojtyła

The Catholic University of America Press

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Prepared under the auspices of the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul II's writings in the years before his papacy and a thematic selection of his papal writings.\nThis collection is essential for several reasons. First, gaining access to the saint's writings has posed significant challenges. Except for official papal addresses and documents preserved and disseminated by the Vatican, St. John Paul's works have been published in a large number of different venues, often with limited dissemination. Many documents need a new translation. In addition, English-language audiences have faced the challenge―even in the case of published texts―of dealing with several languages, various translations, and textual idiosyncrasies.\nThe second volume of the series presents Wojtyła's lectures at the Catholic University of Lublin and his works on Max Scheler. This volume consists of four parts: Karol Wojtyła's lectures at the Lublin University from 1954 to 1957 (during three academic years); Wojtyła's articles related to the ethical issues discussed in the Lublin lectures; his habilitation thesis on Max Scheler from 1953; and other essays related more closely to Scheler's thought. 
As was the case with Volume 1, Volume 2 also relies on the original manuscripts and typescripts of Wojtyła's works. These original texts were compared with the Polish published editions, and all significant differences between them have been marked in the scholarly apparatus. Some of the essays in this volume have not been previously published in English, while some others have never been published before.

The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler (Eng Crit Ed Works of Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II)

History

Europe

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Sign of Contradiction - Pope John Paul Ii

Seabury

Love is "one of the greatest dramas of human existence," writes Pope John Paul II. In this illuminating three-act play--here in the only English translation authorized by the Vatican--he explores relationships between men and women, the joys--and the pain--of love and marriage.
 The action unfolds in two settings at once: a street in a small town, outside the local jeweler's shop (people go to buy their wedding rings there), and the mysterious inner landscape of personal hopes and fears, loves and longings. Each act focuses on a different couple: the first happily planning their wedding, the second long-married and unhappy, the third about to marry but full of doubts. Writing with power and understanding about a love that survives the grave, a love that has withered and died, a love budding out of complexes and insecurities, the Pope addresses such fundamental human concerns as: What does it mean to fall in love? When do we know that a love is real--and can it last? If it dies, how do we go on living--and loving again? There are no easy answers, and there is no happy ending--such is the nature of men and women, and such is the nature of love--but there is hope, if we only acknowledge our need and accept the risks of a deep and lasting commitment.
 This is a play full of wisdom on a subject of great relevance to all, and it provides a special insight into the thoughts of the man who, like no other, has captured the imagination of people of all faiths throughout the world. The Jeweler's Shop has been made into a full-length movie now available on video.
 Karol Wojtyla--Pope John Paul II--has long been involved with the theater. As a student of literature, then priest, bishop and archbishop, he acted, directed, wrote dramatic criticism, made a Polish translation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and has authored six plays.

Ignatius Press

Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes in the conviction that science--biology, psychology, sociology--can provide valuable information on particular aspects of relations between the sexes, but that a full understanding can be obtained only by study of the human person as a whole. Central to his argument is the contrast between the personalistic and the utilitarian views of marriage and of sexual relations. The former views marriage as an interpersonal relationship, in which the well-being and self-realization of each partner are of overriding importance to the other. It is only within this framework that the full purpose of marriage can be realized. The alternative, utilitarian view, according to which a sexual partner is an object for use, holds no possibility of fulfillment and happiness. Wojtyla argues that divorce, artificial methods of birth control, adultery (pre-marital sex), and sexual perversions are all in various ways incompatible with the personalistic view of the sexual self-realization of the human person. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is that Wojtyla appeals throughout to ordinary, human experience, logically examined. He draws support for his views on the proper gratification of sexual needs, on birth control, and on other matters, from the findings of physiologists and psychologists. His conclusions coincide with the traditional teachings of the Church, which invoke scriptural authority. His approach ensures that non-Christians also can consider his arguments on their own merits.

Love and Responsibility

Parenting & Relationships

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Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of Vatican II (English and Polish Edition)

Easter Vigil & Other Poems

Easter Vigil and Other Poems

The Jeweler's Shop

The Collected Plays and Writings on Theater

Person and Act and Related Essays (The English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II)

The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler (Eng Crit Ed Works of Karol Wojtyla / John Paul II)

Sign of Contradiction - Pope John Paul Ii

The Jeweler's Shop

Love and Responsibility