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For anyone who hasn't already heard about this made-for-TV movie - Tonight, August 15 (8 PM EST) Hallmark Channel will air the movie, A Man Who Became Pope about the early life of John Paul II. It looks really good. I have heard that Pope Benedict XVI was very impressed with it.
It will air again on Sunday, August 21 (9 AM EST). It is long - 4 hours. Here is a video preview.
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Thanks for posting this -- I'd heard it was going to be pretty good.
Which is great as we borrowed the BBC one on JP2 (Pope John Paul II) from the library and it was horrible -- extremely secular, lots of politics and light on the religion, dubious "experts" (I don't think ANY were over 30, all non-Catholics or non-practicing, etc) and just generally bad. The A&E one, JPII: Statesman of Faith , was very well done and talked to experts who were either there or are generally KNOWN as experts on JP2 or Cahtolicism.
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Thanks, Mary! I'll try to watch.
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I just read about another mini series on JPII being filmed. Jon Voight is slated to play the Holy Father. Oh,my!!
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We watched this last week and it was fantastic. I had meant to tape it when it was re-broadcast on Sunday but forgot to set the VCR.
I also have the tape Witness to Hope, planning to watch that soon. I had started the book and only read about 200 pages before needing to return it to the library when we left for vacation. I do plan to finish it eventually, but went ahead and got the video. It's not the whole book, right? Would it be interesting for a 12 yo to watch? He liked the one on TV last week.
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Karen:
The Witness to Hope dvd is great! Your 12yo should find it very interesting. It covers up to Jubilee of 2000 and so has quite a bit of good "living history" to it.
The book, of course, is much more detailed and has more anecdotal info, -- a great history "spine" for high school.
Enjoy!
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Oh, good. I had wanted to do a Pope John Paul II scrapbook/unit study, whatever, last spring but just couldn't fit it in. I saved a lot of magazines, articles, etc. to try and do it this year. I will use the video as a jumping off point, then, for ds and see what rabbit trails come from it.
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Does anyone know if this is going to be released on DVD?
Just curious....
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