Word: krakow
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...after John Paul II was buried in the crypt below St. Peter?s Basilica. The world leaders have come and gone. Most of the masses of pilgrims are going home too, boarding trains and buses: south to the Calabrian countryside, north to Milan, farther north and east to Krakow and Wadowice, Poland where Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born nearly 85 years ago. The Eternal City, of course, carries on. But these next two or three days-before the speculation over succession begins to multiply-the forever take-it-as-it-comes Romans may need some time to digest the event...
Born Karol Wojtyla in 1920 in a small Polish town near Krakow, the Pontiff led a difficult and often sorrow-filled life: his mother died when he was eight years old, his elder brother died of scarlet fever a little over three years later, and his father succumbed to the ravages of old age before seeing his son enter the priesthood. He narrowly escaped deportation to Germany during the Second World War, and Communist domination forced him to go to an underground seminary. For a long time, his life seemed destined not for greatness, but rather for anonynimity...
...world about as intensely as it was imaginable to do and still survive it. Born in 1920, as Poland, a once great power, was moving toward its postwar sovereignty after more than a century of bitter subjugation, the army officer's son planned to study the Polish language at Krakow's Jagiellonian University. That aspiration--along with Poland's short-lived autonomy--was dashed when Germany invaded in 1939 and Wojtyla was plunged into a firsthand study of successive totalitarianisms. Forced to work at a limestone quarry, he risked his life by studying at a clandestine seminary and narrowly escaping...
...some things; she may have said too much. She was frightened. But I don't think she can be described as a secret agent." Others, quite clearly, could be. Leslaw Maleszka was a journalist and close friend of Wildstein's in the Solidarity youth movement in the 1970s in Krakow. The two men were called in separately to be interrogated. Unknown to Wildstein, Maleszka became an informer, suggesting that Wildstein could be compromised by planting drugs in his apartment. "He was very creative," Wildstein says. It was only by studying his own files, noting that there was no mention...
...traditional doctrines and has become influential in outlining a more modern role for the papacy and the Curia. The unrivaled gatekeeper to the power of the papacy is the Pontiff's personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, 65, who has served with John Paul since his days as Archbishop of Krakow. Dziwisz heads the Pope's personal entourage, a group of prelates and nuns charged with setting John Paul's daily schedule. Access to the Pope is still a direct ticket to influence, and no one - not even most Cardinals - can get to John Paul without a green light from Dziwisz...