A Global Champion Of All of Humanity

NY Newsday ^ | October 15, 2003 | Seth Armus

[presidio9]

American Catholics, who want to love this pope without accepting his uncompromising opposition to the three issues that separate him from them: birth control, male celibate priesthood and homosexuality. If a schism occurs, it will be over these issues.

BTW, the Edith Stein misinformation annoyed me, but where did the author EVER get the idea that American Catholics as a whole do not accept his uncompromising opposition to homosexuality? Why does the buttsex crowd continually try to gravy train other movments? (see: Their bizarre metaphor of Stonewall for Rosa Parks).

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In other articles, liberals credited the pope with being the man who "really ended the Cold War." Some of the same people who chortled at the notion of Ronald Reagan bringing down the Soviet empire seem to believe that John Paul did.

presidio9, I agree that this is a generally good article--but I my point in reply#4 to

From today's vantage point, the liberation of Eastern Europe and the discrediting of communism looks foreordained. But it certainly didn't look that way on October 16, 1978. Scarcely three years earlier Saigon had fallen to the North; a year later the Soviets would invade Afghanistan; Communist movements menaced Central America; and as [the anticommunist union] Solidarity grew in the Pope's native Poland so did the prospect of a Soviet invasion.

Roman Holiday
Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, October 16, 2003 | REVIEW & OUTLOOK

is not affected by it. The NY Newsday article doesn't begin to give the perspective that the WSJ piece does. A college student never exposed to the Cold War would get nothing of the serious nature of the threat of Communism in the years preceding his/her birth from the Newsday piece.