[lbo-talk] Gallup: Catholics, politics, the pope

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug quoted:
> April 05, 2005
> 
> The Nation's Pulse
> by Frank Newport, Editor in Chief The Gallup Poll
> 
> Pope John Paul II
> 
> Pope John Paul II was clearly revered among American Catholics,
> two-thirds of whom say he will go down in history as one of the
> greatest popes, and 7 in 10 of whom say the Catholic Church will
> eventually make John Paul II a saint.

That is not surprising.  Unlike his predecessors, he knew how to play the
populism/celebrity worship game.

Wojtek