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...weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking to the dead priest's shoes. - Jane Estes
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...example came last week with his trip to a Rome hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing for a Pope to do, and there was no official confirmation of the trip. But set against the week...
Ordained a priest in 1946, just as the Soviet-backed Communist Party was beginning to smother all opposition, Wojtyla did two years of doctoral work in philosophy at Rome's Pontifical Angelicum University. During this period he spent considerable time ministering to Polish refugees in Belgium, Holland and France. Returning to Poland as a parish priest and student chaplain, he spent two years of further study in ethics at Cracow's Jagiellonian, and later was appointed to a chair in moral theology. In 1954 he began teaching at the Catholic University of Lublin?the only Catholic center of higher education...
Wojtyla is tireless, sometimes putting in 20-hour days, and known as a voracious reader. He is fluent in Latin, Italian, English, French and German, as well as Polish. Not Russian? Said a priest in his entourage when asked that question last week: "No Pole speaks Russian?but everyone understands it." A flip-up desk allows him to write while being driven in his car. He has a disconcerting habit of reading or writing while carrying on a conversation?and then displaying total recall of what was said...