Defining Power

More than Might?

When the French Foreign Minister suggested the USSR might placate the Pope by tolerating Catholicism, Josef Stalin famously quipped, “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?” It is an irony of history that the figure whose weakness Stalin scorned helped to catalyze the fall of his empire. The late Pope John Paul II is widely regarded as pivotal to the events that ultimately led to the fall of Communism... (More)