[snowsislander]

But wherever the papal office as such was actually exercised authoritatively during John Paul’s reign, the world is now silent or even critical. Hence there was no praise from the world, but only criticism, for the Pope’s definitive ending of the debate on women’s ordination and his “inflexible” stand on such moral questions as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, and homosexual “marriage” and adoption.

Well, let this one faint voice then praise John Paul the Great for not only his worldly efforts, which indeed earn him a place in secular history, but also for his bedrock conservative values.

[Wessex]

"Well, let this one faint voice then praise John Paul the Great for not only his worldly efforts, which indeed earn him a place in secular history, but also for his bedrock conservative values."


It is unfair to saddle the Church with what the world (or its media) considers greatness .... and unfair to John Paul too to make him more than he was.