God's Choice

George Weigel's New York Time s bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II,  Witness to Hope , set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With  God's Choice , he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at the dawn of a new era. When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray outside his apartment. He had become a