Somewhere around 2.5 MILLION CATHOLICS crammed into Grant Park on the day Pope John Paul II came to Chicago.
Never seen anything like that before, and I lived in the Chicago area when Pope John Paul II came here. (I was also still a practicing Catholic.)
Want to see the Catholic Church turn-around? Find another Pope John Paul II. He was BELOVED by all, even when he spoke truth to power.
Pope John Paul II was ridiculed daily on FR. I know because I was reading FR at the time.