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| A Brief Note on Pronunciation | |
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| Prologue: The Disciple | |
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| The drama of Karol Wojtyla's life | |
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| A paradox and a sign of contradiction | |
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| The more excellent way | |
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| The broadness of a guage | |
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| The subject and the author | |
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| A Son of Freedom: Poland Semper Fidelis | |
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| Karol Wojtyla's national, cultural, religious, and family roots | |
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| His childhood, his elementary and secondary education, the loss of his mother and brother | |
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| The influence of his father on his education and piety | |
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| His interests in Polish Romantic literature and in drama | |
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| His first undergraduate year at Krakow's Jagiellonian University | |
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| From the Underground: The Third Reich vs. the Kingdom of Truth | |
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| The Nazi Occupation of Poland | |
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| Karol Wojtyla and clandestine cultural resistance | |
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| His introduction to Carmelite spirituality and manual labor | |
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| The death of his father and the unfolding of a priestly vocation | |
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| The underground seminary | |
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| An "unbroken prince," Archbishop Adam Stefan Sapieha | |
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| Karol Wojtyla's ordination and graduate studies in theology in Rome | |
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| "Call Me Wujek": To Be a Priest | |
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| Country curate | |
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| Father Karol Wojtyla's pioneering student chaplaincy in Krakow | |
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| His first essays and poems | |
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| The temptation of revolutionary violence and Wojtyla's first mature play | |
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| An outdoorsman and a model confessor | |
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| The beauty of human love | |
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| Seeing Things as They Are: The Making of a Philosopher | |
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| A second doctorate, a new philosophical interest, and a new career | |
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| Karol Wojtyla at the Catholic University of Lublin | |
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| The Lublin challenge to modern skepticism | |
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| A book on love and sexuality that raises a few eyebrows | |
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| A New Pentecost: Vatican II and the Crisis of Humanism | |
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| The youngest bishop in Poland | |
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| The Second Vatican Council | |
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| Karol Wojtyla is named Archbishop of Krakow | |
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| Setting Vatican II's defense of freedom on a firm philosophical foundation | |
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| Successor to St. Stanislaw: Living the Council in Krakow | |
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| A cardinal at age forty-seven | |
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| Wojtyla's quest for religious freedom in Krakow | |
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| An extensive local implementation of Vatican II | |
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| The mature essayist, poet, and playwright | |
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| A distinctive style and a unique set of friends | |
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| Testing the world stage | |
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| A Pope from a Far Country: The Election of John Paul II | |
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| The Church at the death of Pope Paul VI | |
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| The "September Papacy" of Pope John Paul I | |
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| The election of Karol Jozef Wojtyla as the first Slavic Pope in history and the first non-Italian in 455 years, to the surprise of many, but not all, concerned | |
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| "Be Not Afraid!": A Pope for the World | |
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| An earthquake in the papacy and the Vatican | |
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| Redefining the public ministry of the Bishop of Rome | |
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| An alternative theology of liberation | |
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| Program notes for a pontificate | |
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| Preventing a war in Latin America | |
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| Consternation in the Kremlin | |
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| "How Many Divisions Has the Pope?": Confronting an Empire of Lies | |
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| The cultural power of the politically powerless | |
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| An epic pilgrimage to Poland | |
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| Nine days that bent the curve of modern history | |
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| A revolution of conscience | |
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| The Ways of Freedom: Truths Personal and Public | |
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| Marital intimacy as an icon of the inner life of God | |
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| Denouncing sectarian violence in Ireland | |
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| The Pope at the United Nations | |
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| Religious freedom as the first human right | |
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| Teenagers in a frenzy at Madison Square Garden | |
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| Galileo reconsidered | |
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| An appeal to Orthodoxy | |
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| Peter Among Us: The Universal Pastor as Apostolic Witness | |
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| The pilgrim Pope in Africa, France, Brazil, West Germany, and Asia | |
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| Collegiality and crisis management | |
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| In defense of the family | |
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| A bold appointment in Paris | |
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| The mysteries of fatherhood and mercy, divine and human | |
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| In the Eye of the Storm: Months of Violence and Dissent | |
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| The birth of Solidarity | |
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| An unprecedented letter to Leonid Brezhnev | |
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| The assassination attempt | |
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| Shock therapy for the Jesuits | |
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| The "Gospel of work" | |
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| Martial law in Poland | |
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| The Falklands/Malvinas War | |
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| Liberating Liberations The Limits of Politics and the Promise of Redemption | |
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| Revising Church law | |
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| Canonizing a martyr of Auschwitz | |
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| Confrontation in Nicaragua | |
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| To recognize the saints God has made | |
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| Restoring hope in Poland | |
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| A seminar with agnostics and atheists | |
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| A prison visit to a would-be papal assassin | |
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| Suffering as a path to love | |
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| Reliving the Council: Religion and the Renewal of a World Still Young | |
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| Securing the legacy of Vatican II | |
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| The "People Power" revolution in the Philippines | |
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| Hosting world religious leaders in Assisi | |
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| The first papal visit to the Synagogue of Rome | |
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| The irrevocable Catholic commitment to Christian unity | |
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| Addressing young Muslims in Casablanca | |
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| A letter to the youth of the world | |
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| Revamping the Vatican's press office | |
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| Forward to Basics: Freedom Ordered to the Dignity of Duty | |
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| Tear gas and the quest for democracy in Chile | |
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| The beatification of Edith Stein | |
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| A preview of communism's demise | |
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| Hiking in the Dolomites | |
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| The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome | |
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| Opening a dialogue with Mikhail Gorbachev | |
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| The excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre | |
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| A distinctive feminism | |
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| Starting a homeless shelter in the Vatican | |
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| Counselor to Andrei Sakharov | |
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| After the Empire of Lies: Miracles and the Mandates of Justice | |
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| John Paul II in Scandinavia | |
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| The communist crack-up | |
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| A letter to Deng Xiaoping | |
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| Gorbachev in the Vatican | |
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| Defining the meaning of the "Revolution of 1989" | |
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| Challenging democracies to live freedom nobly | |
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| The Gulf War | |
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| The Catholic identity of Catholic universities | |
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| To the Ends of the Earth: Reconciling an Unreconciled World | |
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| The Church is a mission | |
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| A storm of controversy with Orthodoxy | |
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| The re-evangelization of Europe | |
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| Priests for a new millennium | |
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| Colon surgery | |
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| The Catechism of the Catholic Church | |
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| Rejecting clericalism in Poland | |
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| Defending persecuted Christians in Sudan | |
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| Taking on the Mafia in Sicily | |
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| The Threshold of Hope: Appealing to Our Better Angels | |
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| A surprise in Denver | |
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| The renewal of moral theology | |
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| Diplomatic relations with Israel | |
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| Confronting the U.S. government at the Cairo World Population Conference | |
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| More health problems | |
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| A convent for contemplative nuns in the Vatican | |
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| The debate on women and the priesthood | |
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| An international bestseller | |
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| Only One World: Human Solidarity and the Gospel of Life | |
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| The Great Jubilee of 2000 | |
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| The largest crowd in human history | |
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| Another assassination attempt | |
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| The "Gospel of life" | |
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| The Vatican and the World Conference on Women in Beijing | |
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| Asking Orthodox and Protestant Christians to help devise a papacy that could serve them | |
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| A "witness to hope" addresses the United Nations again | |
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| Singing in New York's Central Park | |
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| The golden jubilee | |
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| A Reasonable Faith: Beyond a Century of Delusions | |
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| Revising the rules for papal elections | |
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| France and Poland | |
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| Sarajevo, Lebanon, and Cuba | |
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| The longest-serving pope of the twentieth century | |
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| Catholic renewal movements in St. Peter's Square | |
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| John Paul II's twentieth anniversary | |
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| The Church in defense of human reason | |
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| Epilogue The Third Millennium: To See the Sun Rise | |
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| The critiques of John Paul II are evaluated, his accomplishments are assayed, and a suggestion as to the nature of his greatness is offered | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |