The New York Times almost had a good story about a young Karol Wojtyla. It started out good, but the writer seems clueless about religion. He is apparently unable to comprehend the fact that Karol saved the Jewish girl because of his faith and his religion. His strong Catholic faith isn't just a set of rules saying homosexuality is wrong as some liberals believe. It commands to help the needy and the sick. The fact that she was Jewish has no bearing. The term "Good Samaritan" comes from the Bible where a Samaritan (a lowely class of person) helps a wounded man when others who were considered of the "more holy" classes didn't.
"What moved this young seminarian to save the life of a lost Jewish girl cannot be known. But it is clear that his was an act of humanity made as the two great mass movements of the 20th century, the twin totalitarianisms of Fascism and Communism, bore down on his nation, Poland....
Pope John Paul II is widely viewed as having been a man of unshakable convictions that some found old-fashioned or rigid. But perhaps he offered his truth with the same simplicity and directness he showed in proffering tea and bread and shelter from cold to an abandoned Jewish girl in 1945, when nobody was watching."
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