Not everyone in Ukraine was thrilled by their holy visitor this week. "Couldn't care less," grunted young Mykolo, selling small aluminum icons at the newly resurrected St. Michael's monastery in the center of Kiev. "I know he's not our divine leader, and that's all I need to know."

Mykolo was hardly alone. Last week 3,000 protestors, who like Mykolo adhere to the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church, took their displeasure to the streets. One Orthodox protestor even marched through Kiev with a banner pronouncing John Paul II "the forerunner of the anti-Christ." So it...