John Paul II's papers

The personal secretary of the late Pope John Paul II says he has not burned the former pontiff's personal papers as the Pope had requested.

Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz said the papers were a great treasure and should be "saved and preserved for posterity".

He told Polish radio that the late Pope's notes should gradually be made available to the public.

He also suggested that they might help in the process of naming Pope John Paul as a saint.

Mr Dziwisz, who worked alongside the former Pope for almost 40 years, was named archbishop of Krakow by Pope Benedict XVI on Friday.
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Read the complete article Pope aide 'has not burned papers' from BBC News.

This has been circulating for a few days, not really new news at this point. But I just thought I'd say a few things now that I've considered this. My first thought was that Dziwisz was a traitor. Private writings are just that, private. There are men who spent all the years of their retirement going through their correspondence and 'editing' old letters to show themselves in a different, better light. Others simply burned everything before they died in a fiery annihilation of their private selves. I can understand John Paul's wish.

Thinking on it more, I finally decided that it is hard to believe that John Paul II wouldn't know that Dziwisz would not obey his wish. They were together for decades. I would assume that the Holy Father would know his private secretary well enough to know when he agreed or disagreed with his master...

We'll wait and see what exactly the letters show.