By Francis P. Sempa
Communism’s greatest enemy has traditionally been organized religion, especially the Roman Catholic Church. The beginnings of the Soviet empire’s unraveling can be traced to 6:15 pm on October 16, 1978, when Poland’s Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope and took the name John Paul II.
Upon hearing of Wojtyla’s election, Soviet KGB chief Yuri Andropov called a subordinate in Warsaw and asked: “How could you possibly allow the election of a citizen of a socialist country as pope?” Andropov ordered the KGB’s First Chief Directorate to assess this development’s consequences. The KGB report warned about Poland’s potential destabilization and the end of the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Central Committee conducted its own assessment and concluded that the new pope would work for religious freedom in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe.
George Weigel, John Paul II’s best biographer, noted that the election of a Slavic Pope who was “capable of addressing the restive peoples of the external and internal Soviet empires in their own languages, was a nightmare beyond the worst dreams of the masters of the Kremlin.” “The new Pope,” Weigel continued, “posed a serious threat, not simply to the Warsaw Pact, but to the Soviet Union itself.” more here
“the seeds of resistance [John Paul] had sown in east central Europe began to flower.”
The flowers that flourished under John Paul was allowed to whither under the Marxist Pope Francis who is increasingly seen as hostile to Christianity, nationalists, traditionalists and conservatives.
quick … someone mention Pius XI
I find this oddly optimistic. An Asian Pope would likely come from the class of Chinese bishops who have the imprimatur of the CÇP. So…?
The current occupant of the throne of Peter is there thanks to the lobbying of Mr. Theodore McCarrick and you see how that’s working out.
China using homosexual app to blackmail the Vatican .
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/china-weaponized-grindr-to-blackmail-vatican
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Pillar Investigates: USCCB gen sec Burrill resigns after sexual misconduct allegations
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https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-gen-sec
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seaoh- It amazes me that even though the pedos and other deviants see people around them getting rolled up, they still don’t leave their jobs or quit their habits.
The next pope will more likely be a person of color. Because diversity.
A nice conservative, traditionalist POC would not be a bad thing.