Apart from his oppsoition to abortion, the Pope was pretty sound on all the correct left-wing postions.
They never forgave him for opposing communism so vehemently and effectively.
"They never forgave him for opposing communism so vehemently and effectively."
Amen. In the topsy-turvy world of leftists, the axis of evil was Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher. Hastening the collapse of the left's great utopian hope - the Soviet empire - was the unforgiveable sin.