Pope brings bittersweet joy to Poles

Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor’s homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint “in the near future".

Pope brings bittersweet joy to Poles

Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor’s homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint “in the near future".

But the presence of a boyhood friend of the late pontiff touched another memory – the painful history of Poland’s Jews.

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