“John Paul II was one of Christ’s most important soldiers who took down one of the biggest evils of the century or in all of human history.”
He was a great man and a great pope.
Unlike the current bozo in the vatican.
Also, islam wasn’t the threat it became after the fall of the Soviet Union. I remember Gore Vidal writing that the fall directly influenced the rise of islam which was why he continued to support the iron curtain. He was a strange man, very left-wing, but sometimes he found his way to the truth.