Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President -Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few realized at the time how close both men came to dying. Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that -historians have failed to appreciate. When John Paul II and Reagan met only a year later, they confided to each other a shared conviction:...
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