In 2001, [Boston Globe and National Catholic Reporter's John Allen] recalls, Lutheran Bishop Gunnar Staalseth, a member of the awards committee, stated his public opposition to a Nobel Prize for St. John Paul II. He said that he would block any award for a Roman Pontiff as long as the Catholic Church continued to oppose contraception.
Is it this week that we're listening to John Allen?
2 posted on 10/13/2014 6:16:14 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")