Why the mourning?

Josh Moody  |  Features  |  Letter from America
Date posted:  1 May 2005
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Pope John Paul II was without doubt an astonishing individual.

He grew up in Communist Poland, experienced the suffering and the tyranny of that regime, and rose to pre-eminence in a religious organisation that had previously been dominated by native Italians. While enduring one of the longest papacies in history, John Paul II was universally respected. One colleague was said to have remarked that it was ‘as if he had always been Pope’.

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