Crossing the Threshold of Hope [antikvár]

How This Book Came to Be IN OCTOBER OF 1993 JOHN PAUL II WOULD complete fifteen years of his papacy. For the occa-sion the Holy Father accepted Italian Radio and Tele-vision s proposal for a televised interview that would be transmitted by the major networks around the world. It would have been the first ever in the history of the papacy, a history which, over the centuries, has experienced just about everything. But never before had a successor to Peter participated in a live televised interview with a journalist whose questions were entirely of his own making. I was told that I had been chosen to conduct the interview because of the many religious books— especially The Ratzinger Report (1985)—and articles I have written over the years, with the freedom of a layman, but alsó as a believer who knows that the