By Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency - When the Communist Party ruled Poland, family’s work and school schedules were arranged in such a way that they spent as little time together as possible. The state, and not the family, was, according to the government, the ultimate good and end of society... “So he was in this battle for family life very directly in Communist Poland,” he said of Wojtyla... Much of what Wojtyla came to know about the sanctity and importance of marriage and family life can be found in his 1994 “Letter to Families.”