A farm boy dreamed of a yard full of children, and grew up to open a house in Turin where no boy was ever turned away.

An old priest lost his voice inside the Temple, and a boy was born to give voice to news the whole world had been waiting for.

In a small Austrian village by the river, a young priest brings a poem he has kept for two years and asks a schoolmaster for a tune by nightfall.

In wartime Poland, a boy who loved the theater discovered, in the middle of great sorrow, a call from God. This is the story of young Karol Wojtyla, who would one day become Pope John Paul II.

The priest who took young people camping in the mountains became the youngest bishop in Poland, then a cardinal, and at last, on an October afternoon in 1978, the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries.