Poland after John Paul II.

George Weigel's reflections on John Paul The Great's Poland:

On a Papal pilgrimage to Poland: "Polish cities are dry when the Pope is in town. My pleas to a bartender — “Look, the Pope is my friend; he wants me to have a beer!” — fell on deaf ears."

Telling the Pope the truth about Polish grammar: “the Polish genitive case is a circle of hell of which Dante was evidently unaware.”

On the truth of Winston Churchill's comments on the Poles: ".. since 1989 has demonstrated that Winston Churchill wasn’t being churlish when he wrote this lament about the Poles in the first volume of his history of World War II: “It is a mystery and tragedy of European history that a people capable of every heroic virtue, gifted, valiant, charming as individuals, should repeatedly show such inveterate faults in almost every aspect of their governmental life.”

Read the whole commentary, which is quite uplifting!

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