Years ago, a friend, an unbeliever, former delegated director of a large bank, had pointed out to me that the image of Karol Wojtyla, already old, sick, exhausted after a long ceremony, literally holding on to a cross, is not the “best advertising image” of Karol Wojtyła (so he said, the typical language of his financial environment). “You can see very well – he explained- that this man believes in what he is doing.”
These were the words of a layman. But, I think, you could not find a better and synthetic definition of a person, life, and the legacy of John Paul II. “A man who believes in what he does.” A great example, a great teaching for a Christian – certainly, but also for today’s man. For a man so fragile, full of contradiction, fearful, but still always uncertain in the face of any choice.
With the permission of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “At the side of the Saint”
St. Stanislaw BM Publishing House, Krakow 2013
