The future Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla,
began a friendship with a Polish-American philosopher in 1973 that
lasted the rest of his life. She hosted him when he visited New England
and translated a book of his, and they stayed in touch, off and on,
until his death in 2005.
Now,
for the first time, letters that he wrote to the philosopher,
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, have been made public — and they portray a
startling degree of affection.