Word: cracow
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...that ultimately groundshifting decisions must get a Papal green light, which means John Paul's trusted personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz (pronounced Geevish), perhaps wields more power than any of the big-shot Cardinals. Dziwisz - who started working for the future Pope in 1966 when he was Archbishop of Cracow - sleeps next door to the Pontiff and is by his side virtually every waking moment...
...former Archbishop of Cracow, Karol Wojtyla, was elevated to the papacy in 1978, at a time when the Church was in the grip of an internal debate over how to interpret the doctrinal changes adopted the previous decade in the process known as Vatican II. And he steadfastly held the line against those in the European and North American clergy and laity who saw in Vatican II an opening to democratize the Church and emphasize the primacy of individual conscience, which would both move the church into line with the broader societies of the West, or at least help them...
...when the Iron Curtain went down in 1991, hordes of American slackers poured into East bloc cities like Prague, Cracow and Budapest, quaint, cobblestoned capitals where a recent college grad could sit in a cafe all day, smoke bad cigarettes, drink bad wine, bask in the low, low exchange rates and attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic...
...cynical, world-weary salonistas of The Sun Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes...
...when he became the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries, John Paul II made sure to bring along from Cracow his trusted personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz (pronounced Geevish), who started working for him in 1966. When the Pope was shot in 1981, it was Dziwisz who caught the fallen Pontiff in his arms--and he has been by the Pope's side ever since. Dziwisz sleeps next door to the Pope's bedroom, stands just over the Pope's shoulder during Mass and, apart from certain one-on-one meetings, is with the Pope virtually every...