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April 03, 2005
Pope John Paul II
Charles Krauthammer on the pope:
It was Stalin who gave us the most famous formulation of that cynical (and today quite fashionable) philosophy known as ``realism'' -- the idea that all that ultimately matters in the relations among nations is power: ``The pope? How many divisions does he have?''
Stalin could only have said that because he never met John Paul II. We have just lost the man whose life was the ultimate refutation of ``realism.'' Within 10 years of his elevation to the papacy, John Paul II had given his answer to Stalin and to the ages: More than you have. More than you can imagine.
I heard a network radio news story yesterday just after the death announcement. The report summarized John Paul's vital effort in ending communist domination of eastern Europe, but then the report went on to mention that he "paradoxically" did not support the so-called liberation theology that was in vogue among some third-world countries at the time. The report gave no further explanation of liberation theology.
It is, of course, not paradoxical in the slightest for John Paul to reject a deviant theology based on the idea of perpetual class struggle, an idea that just happens to be the basis of the marxism JPII had devoted his life to defeating.
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