A Triumphal Return

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of Commons, Norman St. John-Stevas, is one who thinks so. "There is something like a vacuum in world leadership that John Paul might well be able to fill," says St. John-Stevas, a Catholic layman. He believes the world is "suffering from spiritual starvation and bereft of moral leadership. The gods of secularism and materialism have failed to satisfy, and mankind is looking for new perspectives."

Those failed gods, West and East, appear to be as powerful as ever in the onrush of events. But the Slav Pope has suddenly emerged from his triumphant visit to Poland as a dramatic and compelling personality on the international scene. John Paul will surely have something of his own to say about the principalities and powers of his era. -