The Man Behind the Curtain.

The HumanistVol. 59 Nbr. 4, July 1999

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Pope John Paul II

The leadership of Pope John Paul II has resulted in fewer and fewer Catholics agreeing with the social policies of the church. In addition, many decisions by the Vatican have been questioned, not only by Catholics but by the media as well. The end result is that church attendance and contributions have been dropping dramatically.

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The Man Behind the Curtain.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," huffed the Wizard of Oz near the end of the movie when he is exposed as a fraud. Perhaps something similar should be said about the man in the white cassock in Rome reverentially referred to in the media as the "Pontiff." Pontiff, of course, is the anglicization of the Latin Pontifex Maximus, the title adopted by the self-deified Roman emperors...

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