JVF Conference Papers
The good news for the Polish Roman Catholic Church in 1989 was that communism had lost, but it soon became obvious that there was also bad news: capitalism had won! While the Roman Catholic Church’s current pontifex maximus’s share in bringing about the historic fall of the Communist regimes in the countries of the so-called "East Bloc” is undisputed and gratefully acknowledged in his native country, he may - paradoxically enough - not have done the Polish Roman Catholic Church such a good service after all...
