My Years with John Paul II

An intimate, day-by-day portrait of Pope St. John Paul II by his spokesman who spent 22 years at his side. It reveals how the pope viewed all the significant events in the life of the Church and in European and world events of the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Joaquí n Navarro-Valls (1936– 2017) spent 22 years at the side of Pope John Paul II from 1984 until the pontiff ’ s death in 2005. As the first head of the Vatican Press Office and one of the top laymen in the Church, he w...