Rome, Italy, Jan 4, 2006 / 22:00 pm
A spokesman for Cardinal Josef Glemp of Poland announced this week on Polish television that Pope Benedict XVI will visit the country May 25-28.
Although the date has not been confirmed by the Holy See, the spokesman said the papal visit would begin in Warsaw, where the Pope would meet with President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz.
Afterwards he would head to Czestochowa and then to Wadowice, where Pope John Paul II was born.
The Pope would then travel to Auschwitz, the site of a German concentration camp in World War II. He would continue on to Lagiewniki and finally to Krakow.