Have No Fear The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005)

The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church a circus and labeled the Pope a prisoner of the Vatican before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church Later as Pope John Paul II Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide From the sexualabuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the nearfatal assassination attempt made on his own life Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinsons disease in April of 2005