In memoriam: Karol Wojtyla, 1920-2005
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bktheirregularIn the last quarter of a century, it's fair to say that few people have had a much greater impact on human history than Karol Jozef Wojtyla.
For all his faults, all his failings - and after all, every human who has ever lived had failings - at a critical juncture, he made a difference.
We talk about the fall of the Berlin Wall, but the first real cracks in the Iron Curtain didn't come from Berlin, but from Poland - in the days of the Solidarity labor union, of Lech Walesa.
Karol Wojtyla was a native of Poland, and from his seat of power he had tremendous influence - it's probably fair to say that without his support, the Polish anti-communist labor movement would have died stillborn.
A lot of people may not know who the heck I'm talking about. I'm funny that way sometimes.
He was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. On April 2, 2005, he passed into history.
The history books will list him as Pope John Paul II. And I think they'll remember him kindly.
Sic transit gloria mundi. Rest in peace.
For all his faults, all his failings - and after all, every human who has ever lived had failings - at a critical juncture, he made a difference.
We talk about the fall of the Berlin Wall, but the first real cracks in the Iron Curtain didn't come from Berlin, but from Poland - in the days of the Solidarity labor union, of Lech Walesa.
Karol Wojtyla was a native of Poland, and from his seat of power he had tremendous influence - it's probably fair to say that without his support, the Polish anti-communist labor movement would have died stillborn.
A lot of people may not know who the heck I'm talking about. I'm funny that way sometimes.
He was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland. On April 2, 2005, he passed into history.
The history books will list him as Pope John Paul II. And I think they'll remember him kindly.
Sic transit gloria mundi. Rest in peace.
