Lessons in Hope is George Weigel's most recent book about Saint John Paul II. The book completes the trilogy consisting of Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning . Collectively, the three books offer an authoritative and definite account of Karol Wojtyła's remarkable life, from his time in Wadowice to the end of his pontificate in 2005. Weigel does a superb job of engaging with different dimensions of Wojtyła's life from his personal encounters with others through his political beliefs, to his not always easily accessible theological writings. Lessons in Hope is somewhat different from the other two books in that it focuses on anecdotes that accompanied the author when writing the Witness to Hope. In many ways the last book is about the first one. Lessons in Hope is thus not a biography, but a collection of stories. The author recalls many events through which we learn more about John Paul's inner circle, and perhaps most importantly the type of hercule...
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