In the Reagan years, the trinity of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II worked together to bring down the Soviet Union.

Conservatives were enthralled by the pope, as were many Republicans. He used his position as head of the Catholic Church to help bring the Cold War and the Soviet Union to an end.

What a great man of religion.

Even though he had told catholic clergy that they were to end any involvement in politics, which resulted in Massachusetts losing Father Robert Drinan, S.J. as a Representative, a liberal one, John Paul II had no problem getting involved in them himself.

Reagan loved John Paul II.

Margaret Thatcher loved John Paul II.

Republicans loved John Paul II.

Conservatives loved John Paul II.

This was a man of action that was bringing the teachings of Christ into the public square.

Too bad all popes didn’t get as involved in the world as he did.

Oh, but wait.

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie claimed at the beginning of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States that the pope should stay out of politics entirely because his infallibility only pertains to religious matters.

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They are just as fallible as anyone else’s.

You see, the business of infallibility does not cover everything, but only some very specific things that have to be pronounce “ex Cathedra”, from the throne, in a very formal manner.

It has been rarely used.

John Paul II helped bring down the Iron Curtain and unite what were the satellites of the Soviet Union with the rest of the world, including the United States.

Pope Francis wants to support relations between Cuba and the United States.

Regarding the opening of Cuba he said:

“For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope: the process of normalizing relations between two peoples following years of estrangement.
I urge political leaders to persevere on this path and to develop all its potentialities as a proof of the high service which they are called to carry out on behalf of the peace and well-being of their peoples, of all America, and as an example of reconciliation for the entire world”.

So while John Paul II is considered a hero because he worked with Reagan, Republican Catholics, like Christie, find fault with Pope Francis because, while doing the same thing, he is doing it with the wrong president.

If Francis is wrong now, wouldn’t John Paul II have been wrong and out of place then?

But get a conservative Catholic Republican to admit that.

So the differences?
A republican president and a conservative pope, good
A liberal president and a liberal pope, anathema and un-Catholic.