Thursday, April 14, 2005

With pope's death, we lost ideal example of faith personified

The Kansas City Star
`John Paul II is not a man with faith. His identity is faith,' one of his closest friends, Spanish Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, told one of his biographers.

Salem Statesman Journal, OR

...Pope John Paul II was an unwavering champion and tireless crusader for the moral causes he upheld. He provided that most sought-after commodity in tumultuous times: steadfastness in the face of adversity. This moral steadfastness, one that asked us to meet it with a steadfastness of our own, reinforced a basis for appeals to action on a shared moral identity and revealed what Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete has so aptly noted: Pope John Paul II was not a man with faith; he was faith personified.

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