Shaped by suffering

In these days leading up to Easter, we look back seven years to the suffering and death of the former Pope John Paul II on April 2nd 2005. A leader who, during his long pontificate, moved from being the energetic, globe-trotting man the media dubbed 'God's Athlete' to a frail, sick figure symbolising the redemptive power of suffering and death. Listen as Veronica Scarisbrick takes a closer look at those closing days of John Paul's pontificate and the way that suffering had providentially shaped the Polish Pope's life.....