In Krakow, before boarding a plane going to Rome, the Pope once again said goodbye to the President of the Council of State Henryk Jablonski and kissed his both cheeks, introducing him with this gesture into great embarrassment. A few minutes earlier, at the last minute, he had embroiled very important words in his farewell speech. “This unprecedented event was certainly an act of courage on both sides.” In this opinion, the Holy Father expressed his satisfaction with the course of his visit to Poland. First of all, with this ‘outside of the protocol’ gesture towards Jablonski, he wanted to thank the authorities for their courage. I think the courage was just to allow this visit to happen despite the opposition of someone else…
“However – the Pope continued – our time needed such an act of courage. Sometimes you have to dare to go in a direction where no one has gone yet.” In some ways it was an incentive directed to the government in Warsaw, but not just to this government, to take into account all that has happened in these days. “Our times demand that we not be locked within any rigid limits when it comes to the good of man.” Unfortunately, in the coming months Warsaw and Moscow showed the inherent inability to get out of the inertia in which the communist world was plunged.
With the consent of Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz – “Testimony”.
TBA marketing communication Publishing House. Warsaw 2007
