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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...
With remarkable hindsight, other Vatican observers were quick to find reasons why Wojtyla's election made sense...
Williams believes the new pope--who named himself John Paul II, as a tribute to his predecessor--may be a powerful force for change within the Church. He said Wojtyla's academic background in ethics--especially marital ethics--could well lead John Paul II to reform the Church's stand against artificial contraception, an issue that has divided many Catholics in the past decade...
...lecture delivered at the Harvard Summer School in July 1976 then-Cardinal Wojtyla forcefully attacked the Marxist theory of economic determinism...