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Saturday, April 02, 2005
On the Pope...
The fate of John Paul II is not in doubt. His corporeal existence soon shall end and soon he shall find himself in heaven. And so those of us down here remember him.
There has been much controversy surrounding this pope, life issues, the obligations of rich nations to poor nations and a million other things. But this pope came to his high office as a Pole at a time when the Soviets were crushing his homeland. And he stood against them and their repressive ways. By his selection, the Catholic church defied those who would bring the end of history; by his service, the quasi-spiritual authority of Marxism was shown to be hollow. And in the end, in a mocking reply to Stalin's question about how many divisions the Vatican has, John Paul II outlived Soviet Communism by better than a decade.
Note this then: The Catholic church is often ridiculed for the Crusades, for the Inquisition, for the trial of Galileo and more. But at the end of the 20th century, the Catholic Church saw clearly the most important issue of the day and stood firmly on the right side of history, surpassing in its wisdom the faculties of most of the major universities of the world.
posted by gbarto at 7:16 AM
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