La luz eterna de Juan Pablo II. Hombre de Dios, santo de nuestros días. (The Eternal Light of John Paul II

On May 1, 2011, the late Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) will be beatified by Pope Benedict XVI, reaching the next to the last step before being proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church. The process of beatification has been accelerated significantly since his death in 2005. This book by Mexican-born journalist Alazraki is a favorable biography of the late pope organized to stress qualities and attributes that would qualify him for sainthood, what the Church sees as "heroic virtues." The author of three other books on Pope John Paul II, Alazraki worked over 30 years in Rome as a newspaper and television correspondent. She covered the Vatican during John Paul's entire papacy, which began in 1978. A sensitive and personal account of the Pope by an admirer who reported on him for 28 years, this book will be of value to public and religious libraries with strong Spanish-language collections.—Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT