The Miracle of Hope: Political Prisoner, Prophet of Peace by Andre Nguyen Van Chau

Written by a personal friend of Cardinal Thuan, this moving biographycontaining over 70 photographs and writing excerptschronicles the life of the man Pope John Paul II said was marked by a heroic configuration with Christ on the cross. From a prisoner in a communist jail cell to a leader of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome, Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan remained a man of unshakable faith and undying hope.