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...doubt that Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to the birthplace of a saint. The only real question is when that sainthood will be made official. The date of birth, of course, we already know to be May 18, 1920, when Karol Wojtyla was born in a humble two-story home in the town of Wadowice, in the rolling countryside of southern Poland. He died 85 years later in Rome as the most widely beloved - and arguably most influential - pope of the past millennium. But exactly when the Catholic Church will officially recognize Pope John Paul...
Rarely has a translator's voice said so much. For more than a quarter-century, papal trips to Poland had been ringing homecomings for its history-moving native son. The man born Karol Wojtyla in a small town outside of Krakow gave some of his most influential - and intimate - speeches on eight trips as Pope John Paul II to his beloved motherland. And he always addressed the crowds, naturally, in his mother tongue. Still, the attention leading up to this week's trip to Poland by Pope Benedict XVI, in only his second papal voyage, has rivaled some...
When you become Pope, you become a prisoner of the Vatican," worries rising young priest Karol Wojtyla in Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (ABC, Dec. 1, 8 p.m. E.T.). He would prove himself wrong, taking more than 100 overseas trips and becoming a hugely influential and popular figure--enough so that his death is marked, less than a year later, by two network specials (though not enough so that either was scheduled during sweeps...
...worked on the plans for Salem High School. His association with Le Corbusier was also instrumental in persuading the Swiss-born architect to design the Carpenter Center at Harvard, which is the only Le Corbusier building in North America.Soltan is survived by a daughter, Johanna, a son, Karol, and two grandchildren.Funeral services were held here and in Warsaw; there will be a memorial service at Harvard later this semester...
...Shetland Islands, 150 miles off the northern tip of Scotland, are about as remote as it gets from London or the Caribbean. But for Laurent Viguie, 44, a financier in the City, and Karol Rzepkowski, 41, who was running a scuba and windsurfing business on Grenada, the storm-swept Shetlands with their clean, cold water were the perfect place to set up an environmentally friendly aquaculture business to produce...