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Telamon wrote:
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I thought my religious views were mainstream instead of "right wing"
before that broadcast. Never thought I would hear a religious view
qualified in a political way.

But I thought it was an interesting point in the program, "Religion
Report with Stephen Critenden (sp?)", that Pope John Paul II had never
lived in a democracy, only under the not very democratic pre-WWII
Polish government, Hitler, and the Soviets. And that the Vatican and
the Hapsburg remnant were among the last formal royal courts in Europe.
(The topic for that segment was the beatification of Carl, one of the
last Hapsburgs around the time of WW I).

Mark Zenier Washington State resident