Simply superb and surprisingly illuminating. Pope Paul VI, though now declared a saint by the Catholic Church, is today relatively forgotten, bookended between a charismatic predecessor in John XXIII and the overwhelming Papacy of Pope John Paul II. This book, born of intimate conversations with trusted friend Jean Guitton, encompasses the personal, the scriptural and the theological. In this merger of minds we see a man unassuming yet possessing great depth and knowledge of self.