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A man browses a copy of John Paul II: I am very much in God’s hands. Personal notes 1962-2003 at a bookstore in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday. Pope John Paul II spent decades constantly questioning whether he was worthy of the role he was called to carry out, according to private diaries published yesterday in defiance of his request that they be destroyed.

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