John Paul II

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'The world has lost a champion of human freedom' said US President George
Bush. 'The world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people
of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration; a man of extraordinary
faith, dignity and courage' said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Too bad
these two mass murderers and war criminals were not 'inspired' by John Paul
II when he was strongly opposing the invasion of Iraq.

Karol Wojtyla, the man who led the Roman Catholic Church for the last 27
years, died Saturday night. He was 84.

A strong and complex personality, he opposed Communism and atheism in his
native Poland and the other Eastern European countries when they were under
the control of the former Soviet Union. He also opposed Capitalism and its
effects on the peoples in the exploited countries, but this is - obviously
- not mentioned by the western media which adopted the myth of 'the end of
History': with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the
Soviet Union, the Empire of Evil was defeated, we (sic!) won and we (sic!)
live in the best of the worlds, where we (sic!) are trying to export all
over the places the best products "made in the West": freedom and
democracy. BBC, CNN, ABC, The New York Times, The Guardian... all these
respectable corporate media sell this story with very minimal, unimportant
differences. The 'end of ideologies' presents Capitalism as the new 'state
of nature'. Amen.

Going back to the man called the pope. John Paul II was the pope who took
the Church back to the political arena, claiming political and social power
and destroying the few attempts of some democratization and
decentralization which had been started since the Vatican Council II when
pope John XXIII tried to use (for a change!) some love and good sense
within the Church.

One of the most important signs of the effects of the Vatican Council II
was the Liberation Theology in South America, where the Church started to
back the oppressed and to work for social justice and change. Jesus Christ
would have been happy to see such a change, after for so many centuries the
Church was one of the causes of that exploitation and always justified it.
The Catholic hierarchy in Rome thought differently. With John Paul II as
its Pontifex Maximum, the Church punished those priests and teachers who
tried to help the oppressed and bring some happiness and social justice in
their lives. Once again, killing hope was used to keep people in need, fear
and slavery. In the meantime Uncle Sam was 'supervising' coups d'etat,
assassinations, terror and death squads all over Central and South America.
Amen.

Pope John Paul II talked a lot about love but always kept strongly the
Church against divorce, abortion (even in case of rape, serious diseases of
the unborn child or grave danger for the mother's life), use of
contraception (in times of HIV/AIDS and overpopulation), homosexuality,
ordination of women as priests... It's not the Church that should conform
to the world, he used to say, but the world that should conform to the
Church. Amen.

Gabriele Zamparini
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