The book includes stories about meeting Elvis and also family members. This book is the story of Carlo Martini's success in fulfilling his dream.

The reflections in this volume are taken from the numerous sermons and lectures that Cardinal Martini, as Archbishop of Milan, dedicated to Christmas.

This volume contains two collections of meditations on the Word of God. The first consists of spiritual exercises developed around the Cana wedding story, with Mary as our instructor in discipleship.

Cardinal Carlo Martini is well-known for his ability to open the Scriptures through lectio divina or prayerful reading. In The Gospel Way of Mary, Martini takes us on a journey through Scripture of key events in the life of Mary.

Carlo M. Martini was cardinal of the largest diocese in the world, a scholar, and one of the most renowned men of the church. Georg Sporschill has worked in prisons and lived with drug addicted street children in Romania and Moldavia.

Readers can celebrate the “Year of St. Paul” by praying through this unique collection of meditations by renowned biblical scholar and retired archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini.

One is the beloved author of The Name of the Rose, a celebrated scholar, philosopher, and self-declared secularist; the other is a preeminent clergyman and a respected expert on the New Testament.

Cardinal Martini asks: "will the world be saved by beauty?" We must speak with a heart full of compassion, radiating that which is true and just in life. Only this beauty captivates the heart and turns it to God.