Deacon Bob Yerhot serves the diocese of Winona, Minnesota. He has dedicated his life to the service of his family and the Catholic Church. He has studied philosophy, classical humanities, theology and social work at St. Mary’s College (now University) Winona, Minnesota, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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Dear Deacon Bob,
I am delighted to have stumbled across your blog and to learn of your devotion to Pope John Paul I. I have loved him since his election 30 years ago, and he is also my “personal patron” as well as my model as a writer.
I am working on translating as many of his untranslated writings as possible and have put some of them on my blog. I am also writing a full-scale scholarly biography of him, including refutation of the absurd murder conspiracy theories. I have a number of posts on this.
http://www.pilgrimage.subcreators.com
I’d be delighted if you find something you would like to link to on my site. I will link to yours.
I am also thinking of getting together a conference for Papa Luciani for the centenary of his birth in 2012, and starting an e-mail newsletter on him. Please let me know if you are interested.
Yours,
Lori Pieper
Dear Lori,
Do you know Italian well? I have read a lot of his writings in the Italian original.
I am happy someone is giving as much time and energy to Papa Luciani as you say you are. I was able to be near him in several ways in August – September of 1978, served for his installation Mass, and heard him speak. I have little doubt he is a saint in heaven, and I wish we would have had the opportunity to have had a lengthy Luciani papacy.
Thank you for linking to my site. I will explore yours and get back to you.
Deacon Bob
Good day,
Does anyone know where one can find a copy of the video of any of the significant events in Pope John Paul I short papacy? His first blessing Urbi et Orbi, Installation Mass, Funeral Mass? Any documentaries on his life? I have some video from “Time and Again” a short half-hour special about Pope John Paul I which was shown during the final illness and death of Pope John Paul II in 2005.
I saw a documentary on his life while in Salt Lake City (ironically) on one of their PBS stations, or perhaps on their BYU station, but cannot remember what it was.
Any help on this front would be most appreciated.
Good evening, Dan,
I do not have any video of John Paul I in my possession. You can search for him on You Tube and find a number of short clips of him during his papacy.
RAI, the national Italian television company developed a good movie about him several years ago, but it is in Italian, so if you don’t know the language, you are at a disadvantage.
I would recommend you contact Dr. Lori Pieper (see her comment above and the link to her website). She is the most authoritative person I know about John Paul I and can tell you what might be available.
Good luck! Stop by again, and let me know how it goes.
By the way, what whets your interest in Papa Luciani?
Hi Dan,
This is rather late, I know, but I only now ran across this question. I myself have put up some videos of John Paul I on YouTube through my own channel, TauCrossMedia. You can search for the channel there.
The Vatican itself puts out videos on JPI but as far as I know they are all in Italian. You can get the details here. http://www.papaluciani.com/ita/video.htm
I have a copy of a documentary on JPI done by the daughters of St. Paul in, I think, the early 80′s, but not of very good video quality. I was never able to find it again an presume it’s out of print. I remember a special on him that aired (I think) on the History Channel some years ago, in the 1990′s, it may have originally been produced by the BBC. Maybe that’s the same one you saw on PBS? I would love to find the original as well.
I would dearly love to see that “Time and Again” program, because I missed it!