John Paul II, the Polish Pope, is now a saint – a vital reminder that the key to victory over evil is spiritual goodness.   The canonization of this good and holy man on April 27 ought to remind us of what conquers evil in this world.  John Paul resisted Nazism during the six years of German occupation of his nation.  He then resisted and finally conquered the great evil of Communism during the next forty-three years.  His Poland, the only part of the Warsaw Pact that held fast to Christianity, also proved indigestible to totalitarianism.  Twenty-five years ago this spring, the first true democratic elections were held in a Communist nation, and overwhelmingly Catholic Poland rejected the government’s slate of candidates.  This is a recurrent and vital theme in the history of totalitarian regimes:  true Christian spirituality defies this evil, even when every other possible check is swallowed whole or destroyed. Those writers...(Read Full Article)