Dom Julian Stead offers a collection of excerpts from talks given by John Paul II during the final year of his life, including his pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2004. All the excerpts are beautifully laid out in a sleek volume which is easy to read and use. Stead prefaces it with a short introduction, summarising the late Pope?s topics, and reminding his readers that ?it is appropriate that we treasure the last words of a person who has been our father, our brother, our friend.? Mary Blanche Ridge ? The Tablet