Notable Praise for
Love Is a Journey!
“With a swiftly paced narrative, Guernon…explores Albino Luciani’s life…Guernon ends by dispelling the myths surrounding Pope John Paul I’s sudden passing. Love Is a Journey is an important work that will be of interest to…all readers interested in the biographies of powerful, humble men.”
Booklist, the official review publication of the American Library Association
“The book portrays real events, essential ones – told in the manner of a master storyteller. Mo Guernon reconstructs the major events of Albino Luciani’s life in an original and fascinating manner. He captures the excitement, happiness, and hope that people everywhere felt during the 33 days that Luciani was pope. Now, because of Mo’s passionate telling of his life story, others can relive those days. This is a book that all English-speaking people should read. They will be better for it.”
Loris Serafini, Director of the Museum Birthplace of Blessed John Paul I / Canale d’Agordo, Italy
“In this well-written and carefully researched book, Mo Guernon gives us an illuminating account of Pope John Paul I’s life. The book is noteworthy for its sober assessment of the questions that swirled about his sudden death and most of all for its heartwarming portrait of Albino Luciani himself.”
Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and author of In the Courts of Three Popes
“Mo Guernon has done a great service in reminding us of the ways John Paul I contributed to the creation of a modern papacy…This beautifully written and thoroughly researched book brings this forgotten figure to life. Readers will gain an appreciation of how Albino Luciani ushered in a new age of the Church with the power of his smile and a simple humility…”
James Keating, Associate Professor of Theology / Providence College
“I enthusiastically recommend Mo Guernon’s beautiful biography of Pope John Paul I. My parents knew him well, and he had promised to ordain me but died just a few months before. In Love Is a Journey the John Paul who I remember miraculously comes alive again!”
Rev. Silvio De Nard, Sd.C. native of Belluno, Italy
“Mo Guernon’s memoir of Blessed John Paul I is a welcome and much needed addition to the corpus of papal biographies, especially in view of his brief papacy and untimely death. The ‘Smiling Pope’ had an essential role in God’s mysterious divine plan.”
Robert C. Evans, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus / Diocese of Providence
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Love Is a Journey: The Inspiring Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul I 