Film reveals secret 1982 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II

17th October 2008

The late Pope John Paul II was attacked by a crazed knife-wielding priest in a failed assassination attempt, according to revelations in a new documentary film about the late pontiff.

The late Pope John Paul II was attacked by a crazed knife-wielding priest in a failed assassination attempt, according to revelations in a new documentary film about the late pontiff.

The film, which is based on the testimony of the Cardinal of Krakow, Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was John Paul’s private secretary throughout his years as pontiff, reveals that the Pope was wounded in the attack, which occurred one year after he nearly died in an earlier assassination attempt in May 1981.

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