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UB Theatre Professor Spent Time with Pope in Warsaw

By Eileen Buckley

Buffalo, NY – A University at Buffalo professor says he met Pope John Paul, II, well before he became Pope. Doctor Kazimierz Braun is with UB's Department of Theater and Dance. He says he first met Karol Wojtyla in Warsaw, Poland in the late 1950s.

Braun shared his story with WBFO'S Eileen Buckley. Click the "listen" icon above to hear it.