The entire conversation focused on this topic. The Holy Father, as he repeatedly and worryingly recalled, never heard the words: “Forgive me.” “Why are you alive?” John Paul II never forgot this question. For years, he had them in himself, he thought about it. He found the first definitive answer. He was sure that he had been saved by Our Lady. He wanted to find out the answer to the second that still existed. As he approached the end of his earthly life, he felt the need to share the opinion he had made about it. In the last book “Memory and Identity”, we read: “Ali Agca, as everyone says, is a professional assassin. This means that the attack was not his initiative, it was planned by someone else, someone else commissioned him to execute it…” (…) The destiny (or action of Providence, as the believers would say) was such a course of events. The destiny was also the question that Ali Agca said to the man he was about to kill: “Why are you alive?” But, he did not ask for forgiveness! John Paul II even wrote this in his letter: “Dear Brother, how could we face the Lord if we do not forgive one another here on earth?” This letter was never sent. Probably Ali Agca would have ignored it. The Holy Father preferred to go visit him. Make a gesture of reconciliation. And, shake the assassin’s hand. This hand! And, he did not say anything, zero. He was only interested in the Fatima revelations. He wanted to know who prevented him from killing this man. But ask for forgiveness? No, he wasn’t interested in it. He never did. He never asked for forgiveness!
With the consent of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “Testimony”.
TBA marketing communication Publishing House. Warsaw 2007
