Most consider the Polish pope to be the greatest of his countrymen, having guided the nation when it was divided between communists and Solidarity. But there’s debate about how he would respond to controversies over the E.U. and immigration. Says one Pole: “Poland today is once again divided. It seems that history teaches us that history teaches us nothing.”

Poland and St. John Paul II’s legacy
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