"- I am a Christian who believes that only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have a claim to a lineage dating back to the time of Christ - and between the two of them, the Catholic Church is probably a better deal because its centralized structure, while having problems like any human institution, has been a better check on heresy than the more loosely organized Orthodox and Protestant churches...see my comments on John Paul The Great and ask yourself what Orthodox/Protestant figure of the past 500 years has had an impact for good in the world greater than he did...(I will help you out: the answer is "NONE")".
But a bit later you rightly praise Renaldus Magnus. I think he and the Pope worked tag-team :-)
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I meant religious figure. The Pope-RWR-Maggie was a 3-person tag-team that brought down communism....