9.12.202545 min

The second part of Marcin Gutowski's series. - This is a unique archive on a global scale - this is how Dr. Tomasz Makowski, Director of the Polish National Library, describes the collection of several hundred letters exchanged between the Polish philosopher Anna Teresa Tymieniecka and Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, preserved in the Library’s holdings. "Czarno na białym" journalists spent several months analyzing the correspondence, which bears witness not only to an extraordinary relationship between two individuals, but also constitutes a record of events that led a clergyman from Poland to the highest office in the Church. What influence might his long-time friend have had along the way? Rozwiń