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06-04-05, 02:17 PM
@HLF
John Paul II's role in the so-called collapse of communism has been greatly overstated by his supporters. First, he does not appear to have been at all exercised over the fact that one out of every six people on Earth still lives under communist tyranny in the People's Republic of China. That indicates that his supposed anti-communism was much more a matter of wanting to see his native Poland liberated than of opposing communism per se. Second, most of what he did was to encourage a revolution already in progress -- following rather than leading.
Third, and most important, the Roman Catholic Church's preferred alternative to anti-Catholic tyranny is not freedom. It is pro-Catholic tyranny. That is why, in the great ideological struggle of the twentieth century among communist tyranny, fascist tyranny, and representative-democratic freedom, the Church allied itself squarely with fascism (the Lateran treaty, the Concordat with the Nazis, the repeated interventions to prop up the Mussolini regime, the direct intervention to assure that Hitler attained absolute power by constitutional means, etc.).
Ultimately, the Church's objective is to establish itself as the dictatorial head of a worldwide tyranny. It is committed to the eradication of all freedom of religion, opinion, and expression. (Those who do not already know this would do well to read Quanta Cura, Syllabus of Errors, and Unam Sanctam. It's all in there, plain as day.) The Roman Catholic Church is a constant threat to the liberty of every human being -- and not one iota less so now than in 1978.
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