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Do not fill this in! == Personal life == [[File:Prof.Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.JPG|thumb|right|upright=0.65|[[Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka]], maintained a thirty-year friendship with Pope John Paul II.]] {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?75377-1/pope-john-paul-ii Presentation by Carl Bernstein on ''His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time'', September 24, 1996], [[C-SPAN]]}} Wojtyła was a [[KS Cracovia (football)|Cracovia]] football team supporter, and the club retired number 1 in his honour.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cracovia is about the people – John Paul II|url=https://en.cracovia.pl/football/club/historia/jan_pawel_ii|access-date=4 April 2019|publisher=en.cracovia.pl|date=9 September 2010}}</ref> Having played the game himself as a goalkeeper, John Paul II was a fan of English football team [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], where his compatriot [[Jerzy Dudek]] played in the same position.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pope supports Liverpool|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/3242602.stm|access-date=16 March 2016|work=BBC Sport|date=27 November 2003}}</ref> In 1973, while still the archbishop of Kraków, Wojtyła befriended a Polish-born, later American philosopher, [[Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka]]. The thirty-two-year friendship (and occasional academic collaboration) lasted until his death.<ref name="Stourton" /><ref name="Guardian-letters" /><ref name="Telegraph 2016" /> She served as his host when he visited New England in 1976, and photos show them together on skiing and camping trips.<ref name="Telegraph 2016" /> Letters that he wrote to her were part of a collection of documents sold by Tymieniecka's estate in 2008 to the [[National Library of Poland]].<ref name="Telegraph 2016" /> According to the BBC the library had initially kept the letters from public view, partly because of John Paul's path to sainthood, but a library official announced in February 2016 the letters would be made public.<ref name="Telegraph 2016" /><ref name="NYT-letters-show-deep">{{cite news|last1=Berendt|first1=Joanna|last2=Chan|first2=Sewell|title=Letters From Pope John Paul II Show Deep Friendship With Woman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/europe/letters-from-pope-john-paul-ii-show-deep-friendship-with-woman.html|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=16 February 2016|date=15 February 2016}}</ref> In February 2016, the BBC documentary program ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'' reported that John Paul II had apparently had a close relationship with the Polish-born philosopher.<ref name="Telegraph 2016" /><ref name="Panarama">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071flrn Panorama report: The Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II] by Ed Stourton, 15 February 2016</ref> The pair exchanged personal letters over 30 years, and Stourton believes that Tymieniecka had confessed her love for Wojtyła.<ref name="Stourton"/><ref name="Guardian2016">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/pope-john-paul-ii-letters-reveal-32-year-relationship-with-woman Pope John Paul II letters reveal 32-year relationship with woman] by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Rome, 15 February 2016</ref> The Vatican described the documentary as "more smoke than fire", and Tymieniecka denied being involved with John Paul II.<ref>[http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/240672,Vatican-denies-JPII-letter-loveaffair-report Vatican dismisses JPII 'letter love-affair' probe:] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094249/http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/240672,Vatican-denies-JPII-letter-loveaffair-report |date=15 February 2016 }} 14 February 2016, The Vatican</ref><ref>[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pope-john-paul-ii-conducted-7366760 Pope John Paul II 'conducted secret romance with married woman' says new documentary] by John Kelly, Mirror.co.uk News</ref> Writers [[Carl Bernstein]], the veteran investigative journalist of the [[Watergate scandal]], and Vatican expert Marco Politi, were the first journalists to talk to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka in the 1990s about her importance in John Paul's life. They interviewed her and dedicated 20 pages to her in their 1996 book ''His Holiness''.<ref name="Stourton" /><ref name="Bernstein/Politi">[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/15/did-pope-john-paul-ii-have-a-secret-lover.html Did Pope John Paul II Have a Secret Lover?] by Barbi Latzu Nadeau, 15 February 2016</ref><ref>''His Holiness: John Paul II & the History of Our Time''—Carl Bernstein, Marco Politi (1996)</ref> Bernstein and Politi even asked her if she had ever developed any romantic relationship with John Paul II, "however one-sided it might have been". She responded, "No, I never fell in love with the cardinal. How could I fall in love with a middle-aged clergyman? Besides, I'm a married woman."<ref name="Stourton" /><ref name="Bernstein/Politi" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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