a great international bestseller the book in which on the eve of the millennium pope john paul ii brings to an accessible level the profoundest theological concerns of our lives he goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of god about the dignity of man about pain suffering and evil about eternal life and the meaning of salvation about hope about the relationship of christianity to other faits and that of catholicism to other branches of the christian faithwith the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is known john paul ii speaks directly and forthrightly to all people his message be not afraid