In the spirit of my new "one post only on giant news events" policy, here's my $0.02 on PJP2 -- the NYTimes pretty much said it all in their Sunday editorial. He was a charismatic but thoughtful man who spoke out against some of the greatest evils of our time -- Communist repression, apartheid, war. Yet he couldn't accept changing social dynamics and instead of listening with compassion to his troubled flock he chose to consolidate power and enforce rigid orthodoxy. His funeral seems like that of a mafia don, not of a humble servant. Sigh.