They may have failed to see the mystery of Mercy as a crucial interpretive key of the Second Vatican Council. (faith.org.uk)
Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.» (firstthings.com)
George Weigel provides not merely an essential and privileged account of the closing chapter of this extraordinary life, but also the interpretive keys to the signature themes of the pontificate and what Weigel calls the uniquely Woytylian synthesis of Catholic thought and practice. (firstthings.com)