This Pope, has been a let down in the last 20 years.
That's one opinion. It's not mine, though.
That's the most fearfully crushing responsibility on the planet.
What utter ignorant bullshit. Twenty years ago was 1984. Pope John Paul was as instrumental in defeating communism as Ronald Reagan, and Reagan gave him credit as such. The Pope provided the Reagan administration with crucial intelligence with regard to the situation in Poland, the land of his birth, on the situation in Gdansk (Danzig) at the time that Lech Walesa was pushing for the formation of a labor union in a communist satellite in that city. That union was one of the first accomplishments in the destruction of the Soviet empire.
Where in hell would you come up with a hypothesis for your statement?! WTF?
Pope John Paul was one of the top ten men of the 20th century, IMHO. Were it not for him, we may still be facing the prospect of the planned Soviet dominization of the world. Reagan could not have accomplished what he did without the Pope.
That said, I should tell you that I am a Protestant who has problems with the US Catholic Church and their functions in the US.
But Pope John Paul has my admiration.......