When I was a little boy in occupied France, I saw priests sprinkling holy water on tanks, canons and other instruments of war so that Christians of one nation -- now divinely empowered -- could slaughter Christians of another nation. I never forgot the surreal spectacle. I owe it (and the…

In a 1992 CNN interview with Larry King on "Reagan, the Pope, Solidarity and the Fall of Communism," Time Magazine's Carl Bernstein made a stunning assertion: the Vatican had offered to help buttress Poland's ailing pro-Western Solidarity Party and prop up Lech Walesa's torpid presidency in…