Word: wojtyla
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Though a papal election is always a momentous news event, the surprising selection of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla last week as the 264th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church attracted exceptional interest. To report on the background of Polish-born John Paul II, and to assess the reactions of his former parishioners, TIME dispatched Washingtpn Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski to Cracow...
...Though he left his homeland in 1946 for Switzerland and, seven years later, the United States, he has returned to Poland often, and family members proved to be good sources on this particular story. "Before leaving Washington," recalls Wierzynski, "I debriefed my mother, who had met the then Bishop Wojtyla several times while my parents lived in Rome." Later, in Warsaw, Wierzynski sought out his brother and questioned him while they sipped...
Once in Cracow, he stopped by the mansion that until last week had served as Wojtyla's home, and found its nuns and priests hospitable-an opportunity he quickly seized. "I still speak Polish," Wierzynski says, "which was an enormous help in conducting interviews and getting around. It also helped me understand and share the emotion of the Poles as they talked about their-our-Pope. Poland is a stubbornly proud and patriotic country, and no greater recognition can come to this nation than to have one of its own made Bishop of Rome. More than once, I felt...
Some believe that an outsider will be eaten alive by the Vatican bureaucracy. But those who have observed Wojtyla's career know that he is no pushover. He knows the art of byzantine maneuver and long-range tactics, having learned it in confrontation with a Communist bureaucracy at least as formidable as that at the Vatican. He has already thrown the Curia off balance, in fact, by failing so far to reappoint all major officials, as is customary. On Saturday the Pope addressed the Vatican press corps, then to the consternation of his aides waded into the throng...
...Karol Wojtyla. The first Pope from Eastern Europe. The first from Poland, a nation whose fervor for Roman Catholicism has been unsurpassed for a millennium. The first non-Italian elected since 1522 and thus, in a real sense, the first international Pope to lead a global church. And, in the wake of his frail predecessor, the youngest Pope chosen since 1846. The last under-60 Pope, Pius IX, reigned for 32 years. At age 58, Wojtyla is robust and muscular (he was described in the national daily The Australian as "a man built like a rugby front-row forward...