He’s the charismatic Holy Father who commands great influence not only over the Catholic Church but also among world leaders and politicians and issues of human rights and social justice. Pope John Paul II is as much a prominent world figure as the presidents and monarchs. Here, now, is his biography, a telling story that covers the past 50 years of a man and spiritual leader who has been at the center of some of the world’s most historic events the Holocaust, World War II, liberation theology, the demise of communism and much more.