The only global leader we could really trust

POPE John Paul II was a great man and, in many ways, a paradox.

The only global leader we could really trust
Tue, 12 Apr, 2005 - 01:00

A social conservative he was willing nonetheless to go to the ends of the earth to espouse progress through peace and justice.

He came through Nazism, helped to defeat communism, and now that he is gone, the world feels an enormous loss.

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