Readings & Reflections: Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time & St.  John Paul II, October 22,2016 A native of Wadowice, Poland, Karol Wojtyla suffered the losss of his mother as a child, and lived under two repressive regimes before being elected Pope John Paul II in 1978. He devoted himself to interpreting the Second … Continue reading Readings & Reflections: Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time & St. John Paul II, October 22,2016