NY Times' Stellar Pope Coverage

First of all, there's this (my bold):

Even as his own voice faded away, his views on the sanctity of all human life echoed unambiguously among Catholics and Christian evangelicals in the United States on issues from abortion to the end of life.

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John Paul II's admirers were as passionate as his detractors, for whom his long illness served as a symbol for what they said was a decrepit, tradition-bound papacy in need of rejuvenation and a bolder connection with modern life.

And then there's John Paul II's headshot:



I hear JP II is trying to land the role of Judas in Heaven's production of "Jesus Christ, Superstar." I'm just afraid he doesn't have the pipes for it.