If his Western flock wasn't with his program, then why have unprecedented millions of ordinary people from all walks of life, many of then non-Catholics, flocked to Rome to pay their last respects to him? He and Ronald Reagan are now side by side in Heaven, having done the Lord's work of defeating Communism. Nothing can ever take that great accomplishment away from either man. Ronald Reagan was mourned as the Pope is being mourned becaue of each man's incalculable service to freedom and the Lord.
Now, now, Lib...no facts, please. We're dealing with liberal feeeeelings here.