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...Time, 1949; Adam, Where Art Thou, 1951), then went on to describe and deride the materialistic, dehumanizing postwar society in such works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963) and Group Portrait with Lady (1971). A crusader for the freedom of writers everywhere, especially under Communism, Böll was considered Germany's most influential writer since Thomas Mann, and in conscious evocation of his predecessor he was often called "the conscience of the nation...
...This was the Pope who shifted the center of gravity of the Catholic Church away from tradition, Europe, and Italy and into the developing world, elevating hundreds of new cardinals and welcoming hundreds of millions of new Catholics in Africa, Asia, and South America. This Pope stood up against communism in his native Poland and issued apologies for the Church’s actions during the Inquisition and inactions during the Holocaust. This was the Pope who authored progressive Encyclicals on labor and justice, fought AIDS, and opposed the Iraq War. This Pope led ecumenical Christian efforts around the world...
...anyone who would usurp it. In this view, God gives life; the abortion and war we create take it away. God gives us love among each other and within the family; we respond with divorce, birth control, and new conceptions of that family relationship. God gives us freedom; Soviet communism and the moral laissez-faire attitudes of modern democracy steal that freedom away...
...they were wrong; this is a man who will never be forgotten. He has touched too many lives throughout the world to ever completely depart from our thoughts. His role in ending communism over a decade ago will certainly be remembered by even the most secular. The bells ringing in mud brick churches in Africa and in grandiose cathedrals in Europe, the muffled prayers of illegal congregations in China, and the tears pouring from the faces of tens of thousands in St. Peter’s Square bear testament to the massive impact he and his passing have...
John Paul II made the renunciation of coercive force the political center of his pontificate. His stout opposition to Soviet communism was built around nonviolence, and his dramatic support of the Polish resistance movement was key to its firm commitment to nonviolence too. Because the democratic opposition behind the Iron Curtain remained peaceful, Mikhail Gorbachev, in the climactic months of 1989, was able to respond to it peacefully. John Paul II is often credited with a crucial role in the fall of communism, but his role, against the expectations of all "realists," was defined by its nonviolence. War never again...