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...Divinity, was probably the only person in the country who wasn't surprised last week when the Sacred College of Cardinals announced the results of its latest conclave. A month earlier, Williams was possibly the only Vatican observer in the world who predicted the election of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, Poland, as the 264th Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...
Williams, who made his prediction in an interview with the Crimson following the death of Pope John Paul I, is a personal acquaintance and correspondent of the new pope. He said this week that he believed the cardinals would choose Wojtyla--the first non-Italian elected pope in 455 years--because of a desire to do something "genuinely spectacular" following the death of John Paul...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...
...social life of a nation needs openness and free public opinion," the letter, whose signers included Polish primate Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski and Cardinal Carol Wojtyla, read...
Intransigent Hero. Another new Iron Curtain prelate is Karol Wojtyla, 47, of Cracow, a talented theologian whom the Vatican hopes may get along better with the Gomulka regime than does Warsaw's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Although Wyszynski for years led a heroic battle against Poland's Communist leaders that kept Catholicism alive, Rome seems to feel that his intransigence now stands in the way of gaining further concessions for the church...