I actually watched some local and network news before the NCAA national championship game came on, and I was a little surprised at a repeated formulation that kept coming up when discussing the late Pope John Paul II. The phrase was something along the lines that people loved the Pope, despite the fact that he opposed the ordination of women, abortion rights and gay marriage.

It couldn't possibly be that some, even many, people loved the Pope because he opposed the "enlightened liberalism" that many in this nation's newsrooms champion.