The Church Loses Its Light (washingtonpost.com)

[Sikh News Reporter]

washingtonpost.com - Pope John Paul II, who died this evening at the age of 84, was an obscure Polish prelate who became the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a statesman who helped bring down Eastern European communism, and a defender of the faith who insisted that the church confront the sins of its past to prepare it for the third millennium.

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