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Learning from the Suffering of Pope John Paul II

Michael Novak, Catholic theologian and friend of Pope John Paul II, and Rev. Father Thomas Reese, editor of America, the National Catholic Weekly, talk about the spiritual and bureaucratic challenges and lessons of the pope's health problems.

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