Macleans
John Paul II Challenged Tyranny
THERE WERE NO INQUISITIONS, no holy crusades, no emperors kneeling in the snow. But when John Paul II took the stage in Warsaw on a sunny day in June 1979, he was challenging an empire as surely as medieval pontiffs grappled with the secular powers of their age.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 11, 2005