George Weigel continues his travels through Poland in today’s On the Square :
Here, in his own years as archbishop of Kracow, Wojtyla began his days with prayer and Mass. And here he returned after breakfast for two hours of intellectual workpreparing sermons, articles, booksat a desk set up so that he could think and write before the Blessed Sacrament. Here, Wojtyla celebrated the baptisms of his friends children. Here, he prayed with his collaborators in running one of the worlds most impressive diocesan implementations of Vatican II. Here, he thought out new pastoral initiatives for a society stifled by totalitarianism.
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