In a World Gone Mad, What Would St. John Paul Do?

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COMMENTARY: Father Karol Wojtyla faced harder times than ours, and he answered them by building an ‘extraordinary network of friendship’ that helped transform not just Poland but the worldwide Catholic Church.


“WWJPD,” I scribbled frantically on the piece of paper. “What Would John Paul II do?”

I poked my wife, pointed at the paper, and then frantically tried to get the moderator’s attention.

We were at the final talk in a Catholic conference, listening to speakers explain, with increasing alarm, that Catholics in the United States face overwhelming odds against enemies who are destroying everything we believe.

One speaker talked about the decadence of every sector of American life. Another showed how Plato’s warnings about greed leading to tyranny are coming true. This last one described how children who were hurt and confused were being coerced into making a life-altering decision to change their bodies, and how the Equality Act, backed by the nation’s leading Catholic politicians — the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden — wanted to lock that coercion into law.

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COMMENTARY: Father Karol Wojtyla faced harder times than ours, and he answered them by building an ‘extraordinary network of friendship’ that helped transform not just Poland but the worldwide Catholic Church.


“WWJPD,” I scribbled frantically on the piece of paper. “What Would John Paul II do?”

I poked my wife, pointed at the paper, and then frantically tried to get the moderator’s attention.

We were at the final talk in a Catholic conference, listening to speakers explain, with increasing alarm, that Catholics in the United States face overwhelming odds against enemies who are destroying everything we believe.

One speaker talked about the decadence of every sector of American life. Another showed how Plato’s warnings about greed leading to tyranny are coming true. This last one described how children who were hurt and confused were being coerced into making a life-altering decision to change their bodies, and how the Equality Act, backed by the nation’s leading Catholic politicians — the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden — wanted to lock that coercion into law.

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In a World Gone Mad, What Would St. John Paul Do?


I'm not sure it would've gotten this bad if he was still Pope. At least the inner workings of the Church would've made a lot more sense than they do right now. Geopolitically it's a different story, but he definitely wouldn't be signing off on much of what's going on the way Pope Francis seems to have been.

He definitely wouldn't have hung Cardinal Zen and the Chinese Catholics out to dry, the Amazon Synod wouldn't have happened, this German rebellion would be crushed (charitably cause that's his style), I would hope that he would've finally gotten around to dealing with McCarrick himself and avoiding the summer of shame, and I doubt this forthcoming gathering at the Vatican with Chelsea Clinton, Deepak Chopra and company would even be considered.
 
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COMMENTARY: Father Karol Wojtyla faced harder times than ours, and he answered them by building an ‘extraordinary network of friendship’ that helped transform not just Poland but the worldwide Catholic Church.


“WWJPD,” I scribbled frantically on the piece of paper. “What Would John Paul II do?”

I poked my wife, pointed at the paper, and then frantically tried to get the moderator’s attention.

We were at the final talk in a Catholic conference, listening to speakers explain, with increasing alarm, that Catholics in the United States face overwhelming odds against enemies who are destroying everything we believe.

One speaker talked about the decadence of every sector of American life. Another showed how Plato’s warnings about greed leading to tyranny are coming true. This last one described how children who were hurt and confused were being coerced into making a life-altering decision to change their bodies, and how the Equality Act, backed by the nation’s leading Catholic politicians — the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden — wanted to lock that coercion into law.

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In a World Gone Mad, What Would St. John Paul Do?
What about the work of Lech Wałęsa and the lay people.
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What about the work of Lech Wałęsa and the lay people.
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I know they had a relationship. But this is about JPII and his role as pope and the Catholic Church and how he interacted with others. :scratch: Lech Wałęsa was not a pope.
 
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