Karol Wojtyla, before becoming Pope John Paul II, wrote that opposing public education can be an act of solidarity.

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Karol Wojtyla was appointed an archbishop in Cracow in 1964 but still continued to ski well into 1993, long after he became pope.

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The Mass marked the role played by the Roman Catholic Church in toppling communism, particularly that of Poland's Karol Wojtyla, then newly-elected as Pope John Paul II.

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