Witness to Hope

by George Weigel

  “We Must Obey God Rather Than Men” (pastoral letter)

  We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah (Vatican)

  Werkström, Bertil

  Whitehead, Alfred North

  Wiadrowska, Felicja

  Wiadrowska, Maria

  Wiberg, Berthild

  Wicher, Władysław

  Wieliczka salt mine

  Więz (Link)

  Willebrands, Johannes

  William of Ockham

  Winowska, Maria

  Wirth, Timothy

  Wisdom, Book of

  Wiśniowiecki, Michał Korybut

  Włodkowic, Paweł

  Wojtowicz, Marian

  Wojtyła, Anna Przeczek (grandmother)

  Wojtyła, Edmund (Mundek) (brother)

  Wojtyła, Emilia Kaczorowska (mother)

  Wojtyła, Karol (father)

  death of

  Wojtyła influenced by

  Wojtyła, Maciej (grandfather)

  Wojtyła, Maria Zalewska (stepgrandmother)

  Wojtyła, Stefania (aunt)

  women

  Cairo Conference and

  Catechism’s citation of

  Christ’s relationship with

  dignity of

  “feminine genius” concept and

  feminism of John Paul II and

  importance of Virgin Mary to

  mission of

  ordination of

  self-giving and Christ’s relationship to

  Stein’s Christian feminism and

  see also Beijing Women’s Conference

  Women in the Church Committee

  Women’s Ordination Conference

  “Women: Teachers of Peace” (John Paul II)

  Woniakowski, Henryk

  Woodward, Kenneth

  work

  Work of God, The, see Opus Dei

  Workers’ Defense Committee

  World Bank

  World Baptist Fellowship

  World Conference on Population and Development:

  in Cairo (1994), see Cairo World Conference on Population and Development

  in Mexico City (1984)

  World Council of Churches (WCC)

  World Day of Peace

  World Day of Prayer for Peace

  World Day of the Sick

  World Environmental Summit of 1992

  World Food Summit of 1996

  World Jewish Congress

  World Trade Center bombing

  World War I

  World War II

  John Paul’s view on meaning of

  Poland in

  see also Poland, Nazi Occupation of

  World Youth Day

  of 1991

  of 1995

  of 1998

  Santiago de Compostela address and

  World Youth Day of 1993

  closing Mass of

  modernity and

  roll call tradition in

  stations of the cross ritual and

  Woźniakowski, Jacek

  Wu Cheng-chung, John Baptist

  Wyka, Kazimierz

  Wyspiański, Stanisław

  Wyspiański’s Hour (Wyspiański)

  Wyszyński, Stefan

  death of

  Wyszyński, Stefan: (cont.)

  Glemp as successor to

  John Paul’s 1979 Polish pilgrimage and

  Mindszenty compared with

  Solidarity unrest and

  as strategist

  Wojtyła compared with

  Wojtyła’s appointment as archbishop and

  Ximenes Belo, Carlos Filipe

  Yalta Conference (1945)

  Wojtyła’s view on

  Yeltsin, Boris

  Young Catholic Workers movement

  Young Christian Workers movement

  Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed

  Yugoslavia

  breakup of

  Zacher, Edward

  Zachuta, Jerzy

  Zaire

  Zak, Franciszek

  Zambia

  Zamoyski, Jan

  Zanussi, Krysztof

  Zdybicka, Zofia

  Zebrzydowski, Mikołaj

  Zedillo, Ernesto

  Zeno, Brother

  Zentralkomitee der Deutschen Katholiken

  Zen Ze-kiun, Joseph

  Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammad

  Zięba, Maciej

  Zionism

  Zissis, Theodore

  Znak (Sign)

  “Żegota,”

  Żeromski, Stefan

  Żukrowski, Wojciech

  Zur, Giorgio

  Zuroff, Efraim

  Życiński, Józef

  Życzkowska, Teresa Heydel

  Searchable Terms

  Abbey of Fossanuova

  ABC

  “ABCs of Ethics” (Wojtyła)

  abortion

  in Evangelium Vitae

  Italy’s legalization of

  in post-communist Poland

  see also Cairo World Conference on Population and Development

  Academic Legion

  Academy of Sciences, Soviet

  Action Française

  Acts, Book of

  Adalbert, Saint

  Adamec, Ladislav

  ad limina tradition

  Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

  Ad Tuendam Fidem (In Protecting the Faith) (John Paul II)

  Adveniat (agency)

  Aeneid (Virgil)

  Aeterni Patris (Leo XIII)

  Afghanistan

  AFL-CIO

  Africa

  Catholicism in

  Africa, papal pilgrimages to:

  of 1980 to

  of 1985 to

  of 1989 to

  of 1993 to

  of 1995 to

  Agca, Mehmet Ali

  John Paul’s visit with

  motive and sponsorship of

  trial of

  Agca, Mrs. Muzeyyen

  Agency for International Development, U.S.

  Agnes of Bohemia, Saint

  Aida (Verdi)

  Alaska, John Paul’s 1981 visit to

  Albania

  Alberti, Irina Ilovayskaya

  Aleksy II, Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow

  proposed meeting of John Paul with

  Alfonsín, Raul

  Algeria

  Alia, Ramiz

  Allen, Richard

  Allende, Salvador

  “Altar of the Chair” (Bernini)

  Alueke, Fataki

  Amantissima Providentia (The Most Loving Providence of God) (John Paul II)

  Ambrose (bishop of Milan)

  American Jewish Committee

  Amichia, Joseph

  Analecta Husserliana

  “Analysis of the Act of Faith in View of the Philosophy of Values, An” (Wojtyła)

  Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday, An (Anonymous)

  Andrew, Prince of England

  Andrew, Saint

  Andropov, Yuri

  Andrzej Bobola, Saint

  Angelico, Fra

  Angelicum (Pontifical Athenaeum)

  Angelini, Fiorenzo

  Anglican Church

  Catholic Church in dialogue with

  and ordination of women

  Anglican Consultative Council

  Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC)

  Anglo-Catholic movement

  Angola

  Annuario Pontificio

  Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL)

  anti-Semitism

  in Auschwitz convent controversy

  historic anti-Judaism and

  in Poland

  see also Holocaust; Jews, Judaism

  “Apostolate of Love” (newsletter)

  “Apostle” (Wojtyła)

  Apostles’ Creed

  Apostolic Signatura

  Apostolos Suos (His Apostles) (John Paul II)

  Aquinas, Saint Thomas, see Thomas Aquinas, Saint

 
; Aquino, Benigno “Ninoy,”

  Aquino, Corazon

  Arab-Israeli wars:

  of 1948-49 (Israeli War of Independence)

  of 1967 (Six-Day War)

  Arafat, Yassir

  Arche Community, L’

  ARCIC (Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission)

  Areopagus of Athens

  Argentina

  Falklands War and

  papal visit of 1982 to

  Argüello, Kiko

  Arinze, Francis

  Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

  Aristotle

  Ark Church

  Arkes, Hadley

  Armenian Apostolic Church

  arms control

  U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on

  Arrupe, Pedro

  Ash, Timothy Garton

  Asia

  Church’s mission in

  Synod of 1998 on

  Asia, papal pilgrimages to:

  of 1981

  of 1984

  of 1986

  of 1989

  of 1995

  Assyrian Church of the East

  atheism

  as pastoral issue

  in Vatican II discussions

  atheistic humanism

  Athenagoras, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

  “At the Service of the Human Community: An Ethical Approach to the International Debt Question” (Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission)

  Augsburg Confession

  Augustine, Saint

  Auschwitz concentration camp

  convent controversy and

  papal visit of 1979 to

  Australia

  papal pilgrimage of 1995 to

  Austria

  papal pilgrimage of 1998 to

  Aylwin, Patricio

  Azores Islands

  Bačkis, Audrys

  Baggio, Sebastiano

  Baker, James A.

  Balamand Document

  Balfour Declaration

  Balladyna (Słowacki)

  Ballestrero, Anastasio

  Balthasar, Hans Urs von

  Baltimore Sun

  Banas, Bogusław

  Banas, Maria

  Banco Ambrosiano

  Bangladesh

  Barbados

  Bardecki, Andrzej

  Barni, Julian Luis

  Barre, Raymond

  Barth, Karl

  Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

  Aleksy II-John Paul meeting and

  in 1995 visit to Vatican

  U.S. tour of

  Bartoszewski, Władysław

  Basilica of St. John Lateran

  Baum, William

  Baziak, Eugeniusz

  death of

  recollected by John Paul II

  Wojtyła consecrated bishop by

  Beagle Channel boundary dispute

  “Beatus Vir” (Górecki)

  Bednarski, Feliks

  Beer, Ginka

  Begin, Menachem

  Beijing Women’s Conference (1995)

  Cairo Conference and

  draft document for

  European coalition in

  final report of

  media and

  Vatican delegation to

  Beilin, Yosi

  Being (Swiezawski)

  Belgian College

  Belgium

  Belize

  Bellarmine, Saint Robert

  Belorussia

  Bemporad, Jack

  Benda, Václav

  Benedict, Saint

  Benedict XIV, Pope

  Benelli, Giovanni

  Bengsch, Alfred

  Benin

  Beniowski (Słowacki)

  Berdyaev, Nicolai

  Berlin Wall

  fall of

  Bernardin, Joseph

  Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint

  Bertelsen, Ole

  Besançon, Alain

  Bevilacqua, Anthony

  Bhutto, Benazir

  Biayenda, Emile

  Bible, Hebrew

  Catechism citations of

  Bidawid, Raphaël

  Bierut, Bolesław

  Biffi, Giacomo

  biotechnology

  birth control

  chastity and

  Humanae Vitae controversy and

  sexuality and

  sexual love and

  see also abortion; Cairo World Conference on Population and Development

  Bismarck, Otto von

  Blachnicki, Franciszek

  Black Madonna

  Blamuth, Chaim

  Blessed Are the Pure of Heart (John Paul II)

  Böckenförde, Ernst-Wolfgang

  Boff, Leonardo

  Bogomolov, Oleg

  Bohemia

  Bolesław II (the Bold), King of Poland

  Bolivia

  Bonaventure, Saint

  Bonhöffer, Dietrich

  Boniecki, Adam

  Boniface, Saint

  Boniface VIII, Pope

  Bonner, Elena

  Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrims, The (Mickiewicz)

  Borromeo, Saint Charles

  Bortnowska, Halina

  Bosco, Saint John

  Bosnia-Herzegovina

  papal pilgrimage of 1997 to

  Bouyer, Louis

  Bovone, Alberto

  Brazil

  Brazilian Bishops’ Conference

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  and assassination attempt on John Paul

  John Paul’s 1979 Poland visit opposed by

  John Paul’s Solidarity letter to

  Solidarity movement opposed by

  Brezhnev Doctrine

  Bridget, Saint

  Britain, Battle of (1939)

  Brown Joeys community

  Brundtland, Gro Harlem

  Brzeziński, Zbigniew

  John Paul’s meeting with

  Solidarity crisis and

  Buber, Martin

  Buckley, William F., Jr.

  Budënnyi, Semën

  Builders of Society

  Bujak, Zbigniew

  Bulgakov, Sergei

  Bulgaria

  Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)

  Burundi

  Bush, George

  Bush administration

  Buttiglione, Rocco

  Buzała, Kazimierz

  Buzzonetti, Renato

  Cairo World Conference on Population and Development (1994)

  abortion issue in

  Beijing Conference and

  family issue in

  final report of

  and John Paul’s letter to heads of state

  John Paul’s public campaign for

  John Paul’s view of

  marriage issue in

  Pontifical Academy for Life’s declaration on

  Prep-Com II draft document for

  Third World and

  U.S.-Vatican clash over

  women’s issues in

  Callo, Marcel

  “Call to Conscience, A” (pastoral letter)

  Calvez, Jean-Yves

  Calvi, Robert

  Camara, Helder

  Cameroon

  Camp David peace process

  Camus, Albert

  Canada

  Cano, Melchior

  Canon 1271

  Cape Verde

  capitalism

  capital punishment

  Caprio, Giuseppe

  Cardenal, Ernesto

  Cardenal, Fernando

  Cardijn, Jozef

  Carey, George

  Carl Gustaf, King of Sweden

  Caroline Islands

  Carstens, Karl

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Rosalynn

  Carter administration

  Casablanca address (1985)

  Casa di Accoglienza per i Più Poveri “Dono di Maria” (“Gift of Mary” House of Welcome for the Poorest)