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Before he was POPE JOHN PAUL II, it is well known that Karol Wojtyla wanted to be a playwright. It is less well known that he wanted to be Neil Simon. The Jeweller's Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony, Passing on Occasion into a Drama, currently being performed in the crypt of a Paris church, shows the young playwright musing on the subject of marriage through the eyes of three couples and the proprietor of a wedding-band shop who just happens to be the human incarnation of God. As a playwright, Wojtyla makes a pretty good...
Pope Pius XII sat through the Holocaust in the Vatican, either turning a blind eye or quietly resisting - depending on whom you believe. But for Pope John Paul II, then Karol Wojtyla of Wadowice, Poland, the Holocaust was a lived experience, as he made clear during an emotional address at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Thursday. And whatever his judgment on the acts and omissions of the Vatican at the time, there was no moral ambiguity about the response of the young Catholic seminarian who watched as the Jewish friends and neighbors with whom he'd grown...
...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...