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 | | After all, this is a pope who still exhibits a bizarre "attachment to [the] quaint ceremonies and customs" of Polish "folk Catholicism"; little wonder that John Paul, the pope of the "iron fist," has "tended to deny those new freedoms" promised by Vatican II. |
 | | John Paul II enters the world of affairs, not as a diplomat, but as a pastor for whom the God-given human dignity of each member of the human family is a pressing concern. |
 | | John Paul II, the pope who acts like a pope, is thus "hard to understand"-a man who, in David Willey's judgment, "presides over a less and less tolerant Catholic Church." The great sadness here, of course, is the radical disjunction in the progressive mind between authoritative truth claims and tolerance: you can't have both. |
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