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Reincarnation: John Paul II Papal University in
Krakow
Pope Benedict XVI has turned Krakow’s Papal Academy
of Theology into John Paul II Papal University. Thus
it becomes the seventh university among 25 institutions
of higher learning in Krakow. Currently its
300-plus faculty members teach over 3,000 students.
The university has five departments – theology,
philosophy, history and cultural heritage, social
sciences, and a theology department in Tarnow.
Krakow’s John Paul II Papal University (Uniwersytet
Papieski Jana Pawla II) is the fifth incarnation of
the institution of higher learning whose tradition
dates back to 1397.
Soccer
Champs Skip Krakow for a Year
Krakow’s top soccer team, Wisla
Krakow, which won Poland’s 2009 football
championship last May, second time in a row and
twelfth in the history of the club, will not play in
the city for the next twelve months. Its stadium at 22
Reymonta street is undergoing modernization and
expansion that is scheduled to last till June 2010.
For the time being Wisla is going to use football
stadium in the city of Sosnowiec, some 70 kilometers
west of Krakow.
Pray
for Peace, Remember War
Krakow Archbishop Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz has
invited leaders of the world’s major religions to
the city this September for a common prayer for peace.
The meeting is to launch yearly inter-religious
supplications to make the Earth a peaceful place for
the entire mankind. Similar events took place every
year in Assisi during the lifetime of Pope John Paul
II. The first Krakow peace congregation is meant to
commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of
World War II on September 1, 1939.
New
Attraction in the Making
An underground archeological museum beneath Krakow’s
Rynek Glowny central square is to combine
excavations of medieval buildings, exhibitions of
ancient artifacts, and multimedia presentations
including holographic reconstruction of historical
architecture. The new museum is expected to open in
2010 at the earliest. It will cost about 14 million
euro to launch.
Schindler’s
Factory, Reincarnation
Minimalist blueprint of two Italian architects,
Florence’s Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli,
has won the tender for the design of the Museum of
Modern Art in the long defunct Emalia works also known
as Schindler’s factory made famous by an
Oscar-winning film by Steven, ‘Schindler’s List’. The museum will cost some ten million euro to
build till 2011. It is to coexist with another museum,
devoted to the history of Krakow during World War II,
scheduled to open in the late 2009. The tender
attracted eight competing designs from various
countries and the second prize has been awarded to a
Berlin team Zvi Hecker Architect.
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