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There is an odd combination of present and past tense in this editorial when describing the late Pope, so I don't know if the piece was written when he was near death or right after he died. There is also the inaccurate statement that His Holiness was born in Krakow, when, in reality, it was Wadowice. Finally, the editorial makes reference to the "accidental" world; most likely, the editor was referring to the occidental or "Western" world.

Other than the above, El Vocero has written a short but fitting tribute to a great religious and, in his own right, world leader. Compare the seriousness and integrity of a John Paul II to the political "leaders" we have to deal with in the secular world. Recquiescat in pace.

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This from someone who walked thru the Valley of Death that was Vietnam's IA DRANG Valley of Mid-November 1965:

Have no Fear,

for you are very dearly LOVED,

as you are and...

as you are not.

I love you entirely,

GOD loves you perfectly.

And Since...

...things may not be what they appear to be in this world, for...

...there are things in life you can see with your eyes and...

...in life there are things you see with your Heart

And Since...

...LOVE is the Only Reality

And Since...

...it is in your Loving and

...being Loved in return,

...in your Heart,

...that you really do live on FOREVER...

...you cannot miss,

with LOVE.

Praise GOD that...

LOVE is the Only Reality and that...

GOD is LOVE

Just ask...

Pope JOHN PAUL the GREAT -&- our blessed Little TERRI SCHIAVO,

...who are together again for the 1st time,

ETERNALLY

Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of the IA DRANG Valley-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts

"John Paul II, the Pope who brought the 20th century to a close and began the 21st century, performed a 26-year mission that will be remembered by the contemporary world and that will go down in the annals of history, not only on account of his work as leader of the Catholic Church and her millions of members throughout all of the world's continents, but also for having brandished a spiritual lance that began to break apart the atheist communist world represented by what was the Soviet Union and the number of countries in Eastern Europe that lived for close to half a century under the enslaving boot of the Soviet Union."

Amen.

May the Holy Father rest in peace.

"the extraordinary effort to bring the different Christian faiths together, as well as the followers of the Koran and the Torah."

I believe this is the primary legacy that JPll has left the world: his extraordinary effort to promote universalism and to encourage all the religions off the world to unite together in solidarity for world peace.