[Notwithstanding]

There is evidence of extremely overt activity by the pope in his pastoral work to undermine the commies - as well as covert activty before and after the fall of the USSR.

Those interested in reading the details of this can read George Weigel's "Witness to Hope" - the acknowledged definitive and best-selling scholarly biography of the pope.

In addition, some of Reagan and Carter's intelligence and security folks (Reagan's Casey and Carter's Brzezinski) have been very candid about this pope's critical overt and covert role in the downfall of the evil empire.

[onedoug]

"...this pope's critical overt and covert role in the downfall of the evil empire."

So, what's happened to him relative to the evil we face now, in that he otherwise seems to find the UN a moral agent?