TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, USA, May 01, 2011 — In a public diplomacy blunder likely to offend American Catholics, Polish-American voters and people in Poland, the Obama Administration failed to send a high-ranking American official to the beatification ceremonies for Pope John Paul II, which were held today at the Vatican. Many other religious and ethnic [...]

TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, USA, May 01, 2011 — Pope John Paul II was beatified today at a ceremony at the Vatican. I’m reposting my radio interview with Cardinal Karol Wojtyla recorded and first broadcast by the Voice of America (VOA) in 1976. The interview was rebroadcast by VOA’s Polish Service on October 16, 1978, after [...]

The radio interview, recorded and first broadcast by the Voice of America (VOA) in 1976, was rebroadcast by VOA’s Polish Service on October 16, 1978, after the news of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła’s election as the new pope had been announced at the Vatican. Today is the 32 anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyła as [...]