The crusader against Polish communism has now been commemorated with a ceremony at which a genocidal Marxist dictator was a guest of honor. Via James Kirchick of The New Republic: On May 1, Pope John Paul II was beatified. The second-to-last step in the road to sainthood, beatification occurs when the Catholic Church declares that a [...]
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