Viewpoint: Pope John Paul II and his 'secret letters' to a woman friend - Independent Catholic News

Viewpoint: Pope John Paul II and his 'secret letters' to a woman friend - Independent Catholic News: The BBC 'documentary' that aired on February 15, The Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II, tells us nothing really new about John Paul, George Weigel writes in the National Review. But it does tell us a something about the decline of the BBC as a source of serious television reporting, even as it illuminates the misconceptions under which too much secular journalism operates when writing about the Catholic Church, its clergy, and celibacy. Longtime BBC talking head Edward Stourton's program is based on a cache of letters from Karol Wojty�a, Pope John Paul II to Anna-