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The quest for the right picture becomes especially challenging when no one is certain that the desired photo even exists. A case in point: locating a shot of John Paul II enjoying the sport of skiing before he was elected Pope. Reports Assistant Picture Editor Alice Rose George, who led...
Zirka Filipczak said that as Cardinal of Krakow, Poland, Karol Wojtyla was pragmatic about "the political situation and yet sometimes he was willing to put himself on the line." She speculated that he would behave similarly in his new office.
The name of the factory suburb on the outskirts of Cracow is as drab and anonymous as the upright slabs of apartments that crowd its barren hills: Nowa Huta-New Foundry. Conceived by the Polish Communist state as a counterweight to "reactionary" central Cracow, Nowa Huta is home to the...
Poland's shrewd, 77-year-old Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, has pressed this opposition role ever since he became Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1948. When Cardinal Wojtyla joined the battle, he used his intellectual powers to persuade both disaffected liberal Catholics and Marxists to take the church...
In Hungary, every diocese now .has a bishop for the first time since 1948. But while an estimated 65% of the population are Catholic, far fewer attend religious services. That is partly the result of a long vacuum in Catholic leadership during Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty's 15 years of...