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