Will the Pope’s just-concluded visit to France, and the hundreds of thousands of Catholics who flooded streets and stadiums to greet him, end up changing France, the United States, and the entire West? Sounds fanciful, but there’s precedent.
In June 1979, millions filled the streets of Poland when Pope John Paul II visited his homeland. Within a decade, the impossible happened: Communism was defeated not just in Poland but the rest of Eastern Europe, which became free.
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