[grimalkin]

I really wish we had someone like Pope John Paul II again.

The Vatican issues a challenge to liberation theology

Sweating profusely in the Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations...

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“I really wish we had someone like Pope John Paul II again.”

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So do I. Pope John Paul II was a good man, a holy man who did good works without fanfare, who fought the Nazi's and the Communists in Poland during and after WWII. He had common sense and believed in freedom and liberty for all. You knew you were in the presence of someone special when you were in his company, as many have said. Pope Francis is a “Trojan horse.” Like obozo, another Trojan horse, he made his socialist/communist way at the ballot box and through the doors of the Vatican. Here's to the next Pope. May he emulate the late Pope John Paul II. We can only hope.