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EP1 | Suffering & St. John Paul II—George Weigel

Dr. Tod Worner

July 11, 2023

Living as a young man under Nazi occupation, a priest enduring Communist oppression, and a pope in an unbelievable world, St. John Paul II was no stranger to suffering. Eminent thinker and papal biographer, George Weigel, insists that John Paul II was a towering spiritual father because he “knew suffering from the inside.”

Join us as we explore what St. John Paul II can teach us about faith and suffering in the modern world.


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