[nfldgirl]

...After that, it was up to the Holy Ghost. Now that God has called his good and faithful servant home after a long lifetime of labor, it is up to the Holy Ghost.

It has always been up to the Holy Ghost, Mr. Buchanan...living and working in the hearts of believers--NOT just in the life of the Pope. Since the day of pentecost, the Holy Spirit has worked through each and every person who has put his/her faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and who allows Him supreme lordship over their lives. Oh what a privilege...what a glorious honor to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and to allow Him to reign in our hearts.

[cousair]

It remains to be seen just who the Catholic Church will choose as Pope for the future. Will their choice follow the resolute stature and honesty of John Paul? Will the American Catholic Church clean up its act and turn around?? Church attendance in America on all levels is way down. The road America follows depends on what happens to our national value system.

[trisham]

He believed in moral absolutes in a world of moral relativism

Good article.

[ex-snook]

"his uncompromising refusal to alter moral truth to accommodate the spirit of an immoral age."

John Paul II, the rock on which the Church is built.

[AFPhys]

His charisma, like that of Mother Teresa, came of the fact that he was a Man of God, not a man of this world. He became popular by testifying to the unpopular truths of Jesus Christ. What those most disappointed with John Paul’s failure to conform church teaching to trendy views on contraception, abortion, stem cell research and homosexuality fail to understand is that it was because the pope defied the spirit of the age that he was great. He believed in moral absolutes in a world of moral relativism. He was a beacon of light in a darkening age, a beacon of truth in a moral wilderness.

A very good article by Buchanan.
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[murphE]

ping

[BikerNYC]

But What Made Him Great?

That people believe him to be so.

[bigsigh]

When the catholic church elected this man pope it was the equivalenbt of Reagan saying "tear down this wall." I remember a book review that described the story of the meeting in the Kremlin where the leaders of the USSR thought this might be a death knell for communism.

[uncitizen]

Very well put, Pat. Thanks!

[lawgirl]

We all have a god shaped hole in our heart. What he preached was how to fill that hole, and no matter how archaic it might have seemed, he was right and it worked.

[lawgirl]

All the churches that have drunk the Kool-Aid of modernity are dying.

Hey wait a minute- drunk the Kool-Aid? Has Pat been reading FR?? **waves** Hi Pat! :)

[firewalk]

Even the secular world against which he stood so
defiantly recognized his greatness. But what was it that
was so special about John Paul II, the supreme pontiff
of the Roman Catholic Church?

His heart

[Cronos]

He was decried by our media and cultural elites as a moral reactionary who had failed to bring his church into the 21st century.

you mean like how they forced the ECUSA into what they call the 21st century by stripping it of all reasons to be called a church (supporting murder a.k.a. abortion, supporting debauched lifestyles etc). That ain't the 21st century, that's pre-Christian Rome with its orgies or perhaps Moab or Ammon or Sodom. That's not the future, that's the evil past the media want to restart

[Cronos]

All the churches that have drunk the Kool-Aid of modernity are dying. Beginning with the Lambeth Conference in 1931, which approved of artificial contraception, the Episcopal Church acceded to the spirit of the age. Today, that church has women priests and homosexual bishops living with male lovers. Meanwhile, many of its most devout priests are defecting to the Rome of John Paul II, while its devoted faithful are splitting away.

well put

[donbosco74]

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/buchanan.cgi/Conservatism/2005/04/04/But_What_Made_Him_G