Having it Both Ways on "Values" By William Voegeli Posted April 14, 2005 Some assessments of Pope John Paul II have, inevitably, viewed him through a prism that breaks every source of light into the red and blue of states on the American electoral map. Consider a shrill column by Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post. John Paul was, he says, the "founding father" of "Orthodox International," the reactionary force that unites Muslims and Jews, Protestants and Catholics against "a common enemy"—"modernization and the demand for equality." Meyerson is particularly angry with the vast orthodox conspiracy for its "misogyny and...
