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Could It Be? The Pope And Ronald Reagan
A story has been floating around the press this week that says during his Presidency, Ronald Reagan and the Pope had a great deal of contact regarding facing down Communism.
When the Pope visited his homeland, Poland, for the first time as Pope, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev warned Polish officials not to receive the Pope. He said, “It will only cause trouble.� He was right. There was trouble, however, not what Brezhnev had hoped for. The Pope toured the country speaking to one in three of every person in the country, proclaiming the importance of Polish independence with crowds chanting, “We Want God!� Not atheistic communism.
A year and a half later, just when the Soviet Union was on the verge of invading Poland to suppress Solidarity, the Pope wrote Brezhnev a personal letter comparing any invasion of Poland to that of the Nazi invasion of 1939.
Later, the Pope commented that Communism was a rotten tree and that all he had to do was shake it.
It is said that President Ronald Reagan shared satellite imagery and other information with the Pope in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Could it be that they worked together to eliminate atheistic communism as a world power?
Who knows?
I’m reminded of a saying my German Grandmother Miller was fond of using. “God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.�
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Gary Randall
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Faith and Freedom Foundation
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