As Roman Catholic cardinals prepare to elect a new pope, historians and analysts are looking more deeply at the legacy of Pope John Paul II.

The "progressives" will not forgive John Paul II because what they call sexual liberation the Pope regards as the tyranny of the libido, a form of slavery.

John Paul saw his earthly tasks as ministerial, and we do well to remember that this seemingly ordinary vocation was the basis out of which came his extraordinary achievements.

Pope John Paul II has madehistoryin ways that his Western critics barely understand.

I am glad I was able to bePope John Paul II's funeraland, when no one was looking, to blow him a final kiss as he disappeared into St. Peter's, out of sight.

In the very first year of his papacy, Pope John Paul II planted a time bomb in the Church that is not likely to go off until about twenty years from now.

John Paul II"s confidence in the inalienability of certain rights was a spiritual rock on which whole peoples rebuilt faith in their own human dignity.

Pope John Paul II pointed the way to a new civilization of love--real, serious, self-sacrificing, other-centered, unselfish love.