28-03-2009, 02:47 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:There is always the possibility of splits with in the right. Pope John Paul may have been very anti-communist but he was not a nazi sympathiser and was not anti semitic. Maybe he was still thought too left wing for some.
For what it is worth the next assassination attempt on his life took place almost a year to the day after the Mehmet Ali Ağca attempt and was done by a disgruntled priest who thought JP2 was an agent of communism and the eastern block. However there is the possibility there was mental illness as he left the priesthood and went on to become a solicitor in Belgium.
Quote:From Wikipedia: The assailant, a right wing Spanish priest named Juan María Fernández y Krohn,[112] was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the Society of Saint Pius X and was opposed to the changes caused by the Second Vatican Council, calling the pope an agent of Communist Moscow and of the Marxist Eastern Bloc.[115] Fernández y Krohn subsequently left the Roman Catholic priesthood and served three years of a six-year sentence.[113][114][115] The ‘ex-priest’ was treated for mental illness and then expelled from Portugal, going on to become a solicitor in Belgium.[115] He was arrested again in July 2000 after climbing over a security barricade at the Royal Palace of Brussels, intent on killing either Belgian King Albert II or the visiting Spanish King Juan Carlos.There are also religious divisions to consider. Not all the right wing nuts like the Catholic church either.
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