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...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...
...black-robed nuns who cook his meals and do his laundry are members of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is based in Cracow. More important, one of the Pope's two secretaries -- and the one who controls all access to his boss -- is Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, 55, also of Cracow. (The other secretary is not Italian, as one might expect, but ( Vietnamese, Monsignor Vincent Tran Ngoc...
Utterly loyal and discreet, Dziwisz (pronounced Gee-vish) served as Wojtyla's secretary and chaplain when the future Pope was still Archbishop and Cardinal of Cracow. Today he is the gatekeeper: no one -- neither papal friend nor foe -- comes to the Holy Father save through the humble monsignor. Says a close papal aide: "Whoever the Pope is, he's going to be someone who feels very much alone. You need someone by your side, a kind of soul mate, and that's what Don Stanislaw...
...Polish emigres to France (his mother would die in Auschwitz). Abandoning his original name, Aaron, he adopted Catholicism as a teenager, a move that hurt his parents terribly. Lustiger is a trusted confidant of John Paul's; when he first visited the Pope, John Paul's secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, grabbed the Frenchman's arm and told him, "Remember, you are the fruit of the prayers of the Pope. The Pope prayed long and hard over his choice...
...week's end the pall of shock and fear had begun to lift slightly. The Pope improved enough the day after the shooting to take Communion at a Mass said in his room by Monsignor Dziwisz, receive brief visits from some Vatican prelates and speak to his doctors. Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, the Dean of the College of Cardinals and one of John Paul's visitors, reported that the Pope has "no resentment in him, but complete forgiveness toward" his would-be killer. Francesco Crucitti, a surgeon at the Gemelli hospital, said he had asked the Pontiff whether...