36: St. John Paul II and Ronald Reagan: The Friendship That Changed History—Dr. Paul Kengor

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🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Most people are unaware of the mutual admiration and friendship John Paul the Great had with President Reagan. With differing on Christian teachings, they were acutely aware they had the same Teacher. Both survived close-up attempts at assassination, both immediately forgave their attackers, and both were passionate about bringing down the godless Soviet Communist leviathan that Reagan tagged, “the evil empire.”

Their partnership, based on moral authority and transcendent truth, did bring down the Soviet Union and all its pomps and works. Yes, there were other players in that drama, and one of them is Ven. Fulton Sheen. Another is Our Lady of Fatima.

That’s right. Fatima. As you’ll find out, not only did President Reagan learn about Fatima and its prophetic message about the spread of Russia’s errors from his dear friend the Polish Pope, he (Reagan) identified his life work in some way as being involved in a divine plan, which he nicknamed “DP.”

The fascinating details are found in Kengor’s definitive double biography, A Pope and President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20the Century.

This is a really interesting conversation with a natural born story teller and historian, Paul Kengor, complete with plenty of sidebar excursions into Things Sheen.

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0:52.4	foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin show.
0:57.0	And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin. Welcome. We talk about the lasting things of life and we go upstream from politics to culture and we talk about best practices for repairing the DNA damage done to the country along the way and to the west generally.
1:22.0	Today we're going to talk about something,
1:24.0	in some ways it's the biggest untold story of the last hundred years,
1:28.0	how that century was shaped.
1:30.0	Most of my listeners and viewers grew up either under or in the presidency of Ronald Reagan and
1:34.7	the Papacives now St. John Paul II, the Great.
1:38.6	But very few people know about the deep friendship between this Pope and this President and how their two life's work, their
1:45.2	projects of life, their vocations uniquely overlapped and it was a powerful
1:50.8	collaboration that brought down communism, particularly in Russia.
1:55.2	There's a new book about all this, titled A Pope and a President, John Paul II, Ronald Reagan,
1:59.7	and the untold story of the 20th century.
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