By New York Times |Poland |Updated: January 13, 2019 11:36:59 am
Legacy of ‘Our Pope’ forms one more battle line in a divided Poland
In the Poland of 2019, even the pope’s childhood can have a contested meaning: While it was suffused in Polish patriotism, it occurred in a place of pluralism.
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(Written by Marc Santora)
On his knees, head bowed before bloodstained robes, a Polish man was deep in prayer.
He was worshipping in a chapel at the John Paul II Center in Krakow, a sprawling complex where relics of the former pontiff are displayed, including the clothes he was wearing when nearly killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1981.
An engineer, the man said he preferred to keep his prayers private and asked that only his first name, Wojciech, be used. But he was excited to talk about his beloved pope.
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