Here’s an article about how John Paul II hastened the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. The great Lech Walesa says:
"We know what the pope has achieved. Fifty percent of the collapse of communism is his doing," Walesa told The Associated Press on Friday. "More than one year after he spoke these words, we were able to organize 10 million people for strikes, protests and negotiations.”
Someone recently told me a story of when John Paul II
was Archbishop Wojtyla of Kracow. The
Communists were going to hold a massive rally at 11:00am on Sunday to show the
Christians the strength of their numbers. Wojtyla cancelled mass at all Kracow churches except one, which would be
held at 11:00am. So all Catholics in
Kracow showed up at the same church at the same time, thereby dwarfing the
number of Communists rallying to their god of materialism. That's a clever and brave bishop.
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