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Default Re: Habemus Papam! - 21-04-2005

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Originally Posted by KWo
If he wasn't useful - why so many people and so many VIPs have been at his funeral?
well... maybe because he's been the most mediatic pope ever ?

Think about it: this pope canonized more people during his papacy than all his predecessors reunited. That's a very good business investment: every third world village has its own particular saint now. Why do you think he travelled so much ?

I disagree to say that he's been responsible of the fall of the USSR-style communism. That's forgetting that the pope's catholic voice had almost no impact on Russia and 90% of the eastern provinces, which are foremost... orthodox.

The only place where he had some impact was Poland, his own homeland. Due the strong monarchist/catholic traditions that used to prevail in this country, that was not unexpected anyway ; as Stalin used to say, "applying communism to Poland is roughly as hard as putting an apron on a cow"



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