Pope John Paul II is known for his opposition to Soviet communism. Less remembered is his quiet resistance to Poland's wartime Nazi occupiers, when he attended an underground seminary and acted in a secret theater group.
Even more forgotten is his fight against oppressive building regulation. When the postwar Polish communist regime built a model city so perfect it didn't include a church, then-Archbishop Karol Wojtyla fought for years to get the permissions necessary to build one.
