WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The head of Poland's National Library says the letters that a Polish Cardinal and later Pope John Paul II wrote to a woman philosopher document a "difficult and courageous" friendship of 32 years and suggest she could have been in love with the Catholic Church leader.
The library bought hundreds of letters for a "seven-digit" amount in 2008 from the woman, Polish-born American thinker Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and is planning to publish them.
The head of the library, Tomasz Makowski, said Tuesday the letters were written by the cardinal, and later pope, from 1973 until shortly before his 2005 death. He said they hint that Tymieniecka, who died in 2014 aged 91, might have been in love with him, but he kept their relationship on a purely friendly and intellectual level.
Head of Poland¿s National Library, Tomasz Makowski, shows one of the many letters from Pope John Paul II to a Polish-America philosopher, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, that are kept at the library in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. The library bought hundreds of letters for a ¿seven-digit¿ amount in 2008 from the woman, the Polish-born American thinker Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and is planning to have them published in the coming years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Head of Poland¿s National Library, Tomasz Makowski, shows one of the many letters from Pope John Paul II to a Polish-America philosopher, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, that are kept at the library in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. The library bought hundreds of letters for a ¿seven-digit¿ amount in 2008 from the woman, the Polish-born American thinker Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and is planning to have them published in the coming years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
One of hundreds of letters that Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II sent to a Polish-American philosopher during the 32 years of joint work and friendship between the two, now kept at the National Library in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, 16 Feb. 2016. The library bought hundreds of letters for a ¿seven-digit¿ amount in 2008 from the woman, the Polish-born American thinker Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and is planning to have them published in the coming years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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