[Robert Lomax]

"I would say he should be canonized as a saint because the fall of communism took place without war -- that indeed, my friends, is a miracle in my book!"

Then shouldn't Ronald Reagan be made a saint?

Things that make you want to say, "hum?" The pope had a private secretary for 40 years and there seemed to be institutional unwillingness of the Vatican to deal with the pediphile eruptions within its ranks of priests?

Flame away....

[brytlea]

RR was not a Catholic, however. (Maybe they don't have to be, but I thought they did).
susie

[Miss Marple]

Your are inferring a clandestine and perverted relationship between the Pope and his secretary. You should be ashamed.

I imagine the Pope kept the secretary because he was POLISH; if I had to accept ruling the Church in a foreign country, I would want someone by my side who could speak English as a native tongue. The same with the Pope...he wanted someone who spoke POLISH.

[DCMB]

Projection....

[Loud Mime]

Four people were instrumental in the leadership that led to the fall of the Soviet empire, the Pope, Reagan, Thatcher and Lech Walesa.

The inside job was the most important. Lech and the Pope did that work.

[hershey]

It would have been nice if John Paul ll had dealt with the pedophile eruption problems quickly and forcefully, but that didn't happen. He believed in prayer as a powerful force to change things. That's why he went into the priesthood, why he spoke often about nonviolence. Prayer. Well, they followed that route with pedophile priests, and maybe some of it worked, but studies seem to show that pedophilia cannot be cured. I don't think the Church/the Pope knew that, so they did what they'd always done in the past. As for RR, I noticed that not once was his name mentioned during the week or more of wall to wall tv coverage as having had anything to do with the fall of communism. Interesting. (Grudgingly, the MSM admitted the Pope had had more divisions than Stalin and company ever dreamed.)