Warsaw, Poland, Jun 5, 2005 / 22:00 pm
During an interview with Polish state radio, Pope John Paul II's longtime private secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, revealed he has preserved the late pontiff's personal notes instead of burning them, as his will demanded.
Archbishop Dziwisz, who worked with the Pope from 1966 until his death in April, was appointed last Friday as the new Archbishop of Krakow, Poland’s second largest diocese.
“Nothing has been burned. Nothing is fit for burning, everything should be preserved and kept for history, for the future generations - every single sentence,” said Dziwisz during Saturday's radio interview.
“These are great riches that should gradually be made available to the public,” he added.