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Le Monde of Paris marked Friday's 20 th anniversary of John Paul II's election to the papacy by commissioning an opinion poll that shows 53 percent of French people think he should resign.
The style of John Paul II's papacy has occasioned as much comment as its substance.
Before ascending to the papacy in 1939, Eugenio Pacelli neutered German Catholic opposition to Nazism, campaigned to remove black troops from the Rhineland, and contemptuously declined to help persecuted Jews.
His religious conversion won him the support of the papacy, and Mieszko effectively founded the Polish state the following year.
The backspin: The United States and Canada have gained more cardinals, and to woo them, candidates for the papacy will have to be more sensitive to American Catholics' dissent from papal teachings on divorce, remarriage, and women in the priesthood.