THE last quarter-century has been a period of dramatic turmoil that has seen the fall of brutal dictatorships and the disappearance of Communism as a global creed. But widely overlooked while we concentrated on the Soviet Union and China is the change that has occurred in the Catholic world.
Indeed, one of the untold stories of the late twentieth century is that dictatorship has been virtually eliminated in countries with a Catholic majority. At the center of this dramatic development has been Pope John Paul II. As he has carried out his global pastoral mission over the last 18 years, the Polish Pope has emerged as the world’s most important and effective advocate of freedom and democracy.
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