COOLER THAN HOWARD ROARK: KRAKOW–The old quarry where Karol Wojtyla began to work at age 19 is today a silent place, a huge open hole in the south of the city. But the Divine Mercy Shrine, which now dominates the scene with its ultra-modern tower, is not the only change in the surrounding landscape.

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There will soon be other buildings, as the field will become the new campus of the university, in which Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope, began to study philology. He studied until Hitler invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, and ordered the destruction of Polish culture, the closure of the university and the deportation of the professors to concentration camps.

The old stone quarry is becoming a scientific center; philosophy, theology, exact sciences and biomedical sciences will be studied here.

[clipped] (From Zenit via the National Catholic Register.)