[lbo-talk] the bloody pope

[Todd Archer]

"John Paul II became Pope in 1978, just as the emancipatory 60s were
declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret
Thatcher. As the economic downturn of the early 70s began to bite,
the western world made a decisive shift to the right, and the
transformation of an obscure Polish bishop from Karol Wojtyla to John
Paul II was part of this wider transition. The Catholic church had
lived through its own brand of flower power in the 60s, known as the
Second Vatican Council; and the time was now ripe to rein in leftist
monks, clap-happy nuns and Latin American Catholic Marxists. All of
this had been set in train by a pope - John XIII - whom the Catholic
conservatives regarded as at best wacky and at worst a Soviet agent."

Isn't that supposed to be John XXIII?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council

Todd