When John Paul II had to cancel the interview at the last minute, he still wanted to answer Messori ’ s questions and told him: “ You have asked me questions, therefore you have a right to responses.

As Messori began compiling the questions, he saw that additional questions as follow-up would be helpful.

When the follow-up questions returned from the Vatican, Messori found that the pope had again answered every question.

Messori doesn ’ t ask private questions, but the questions he does ask allow the reader to see the personal life of the pope.

Messori continues to ask questions throughout the book that people throughout the world have wondered: “ How do you pray ?” “ Does God really exist ?” “ Is there really hope in the young ?” “ Does eternal life exist ?” “ What does it mean to be saved ?” The pope does not answer questions that only pertain to Catholicism.

Messori ’ s questions in the latter portion of the book refer to various tenets of the Catholic faith, including whether the Catholic Church really has the fullness of truth, and whether or not heaven exists.

* Interview with Messori about anti-catholic provocations ( pdf ), in Il Giornale, June 23, 2007

As Vittorio Messori notes, this movement, which was once thought of as a pre-Vatican II fossil by progressives, has not only survived the heyday of progressive Catholic movements, but continues growing while the left in general, religious and lay, is shrinking.

During World War II, under the leadership of P. Messori Roncaglia SJ, it became the center of the resistance movement against the Nazis.

* Messori, Vittorio.

Vittorio Messori ( born 1941 ) is an Italian journalist and writer.

Messori was born in Sassuolo near Modena in Italy.

Messori had a completely secular upbringing.

They regarded his conversion as " a psychiatric crisis, a depression, a mistake ," with the result that, as Messori says, " they abandoned me and finally disowned me.

After graduating, Messori attended courses at the Institute of Christology at Assisi.

The contents presented in Crossing the Threshold of Hope were originally intended to be broadcasted as a live television interview with Vittorio Messori, an Italian journalist and writer.

At the end of April 1994, Messori received a package from the Vatican: The pope had answered every question.

John Paul II expressed his confidence in Messori by permitting him to do whatever he saw fit with the contents of the folder.

Some readers may find Messori frustrating at times, as his writing can be gushing and formal.

V. Messori says that Escrivá set up inviolable and perpetual rules to establish the essential conditions for Opus Dei's life.

After investigating into the actual implementation of these rules and spirit, Messori concludes that ( 1 ) the members of Opus Dei receive nothing else but spiritual advice, ( 2 ) they do not operate as a herd in political affairs, but ( 3 ) consider respect for pluralism in matters not concerning the faith one way of obeying a central conviction of the founder.

( See Messori 1997, p. 175 )

Messori, who is not a member of Opus Dei, also states that there were only 8 members of Opus Dei ( 5 of whom served for only one term or but a few months ) of the 116 ministers under Franco's regime, and they started serving only after 1956, a few years after the Allies recognized it.

They were never a majority: " The myth of an Opus Dei dominated Franco government is just that -- a myth " ( Messori 1997, p. 30 ) ( Berglar 1994, p. 186 ).

No one asks questions about the free union of the sexes in West Venice so long as the partners share the negative attitudes of the group.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition.

His father asks him " stupid and distressing " questions about his war experiences, not understanding " that a man cannot talk of such things.

Analysts note that Blake asks four questions rather than asserting the historical truth of Christ's visit.

During a visit of a delegation of Roman Catholic cardinals in Manhattan in January 2004, he said that “ a meeting like this doesn't signify in itself a breakthrough ”, and called for “ a theological dialogue that asks the tough questions, such as whether Catholicism allows for Jews to enter eternal paradise .”

The minister of baptism asks the following questions ( ICEL, 1974 ):

In Alma Chapter 5, Alma the Younger speaks to the people of Zarahemla in which he asks 50 rhetorical questions which are widely cited in the LDS church.

To all of the questions that the person asks, it makes appropriate responses, such that any Chinese speaker would be convinced that he or she is talking to another Chinese-speaking human being.

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

Dhritarāshtra sometimes asks questions and doubts and sometimes laments, knowing about the destruction caused by the war, to his sons, friends and kinsmen.

By reason one asks questions of faith and seeks to understand God's action and will.

The Dean of the College of Cardinals then asks two solemn questions of the cardinal who has been elected.

This is accomplished in solo auditing, where the Scientologist holds both cans of an E-meter in one hand and asks questions as an auditor.

He questions common concepts like justice or equality and asks where these concepts originated and who they benefit.

The side that calls the witness first asks questions, in what is called direct examination.

The census asks questions about race, though the classification used is no different from what would be termed ethnic origin elsewhere.

He asks questions about which actions are right or wrong and shies away from meta-ethics, which focuses more on logic and language.

* non-differentiation when a battery of questions asks for ratings of multiple objects on the same response scale

One of the repeating questions discussed in the Western philosophical tradition since Christianization is the question of " free will ", and the related but more general notion of fate, which asks how will can be truly free if the actions of people have natural or divine causes which determine them, but which are not really under the control of people.

The research approach that she designed, now known familiarly as a “ Wug Test ”, shows children simple pictures of appealing imaginary creatures and activities, and asks the child questions about them: Here is a wug.

Tarchon's work on Tages, he says, is a dialogue in which Tarchon asks Tages questions in " the ordinary language of the Italians ".

Conservative, who is dressed as a detective, asks Moonbat questions about politics.

Among numerous other questions, Vafþrúðnir asks Odin to tell him what the name of the plain is where the gods and Surtr will meet.

The survey asks questions about direct attacks on journalists and the media as well as other indirect sources of pressure against the free press, such as non-governmental groups.