Man From A Far Country who became a superman Pope
But, as author John Cornwell points out in the following extracts from his recent book, The Pope In Winter, the young cardinal was not chosen for his shock value.
TWO weeks after being raised to the priesthood [he was ordained on November 1, 1946], young Fr Wojtyla was making his way by train across Europe, via Paris, to Rome. It was not given to every young priest to be funded for a postgraduate Roman education, especially in destitute countries like Poland, where every priest was needed.
