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Robert Dornan: “Pol Pot, Pol Pot, from the Killing Fields. He is on that list that the Pope has condemned. He came into office in 1978…”

On the recordJuly 30, 1996
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, from the Killing Fields. He is on that list that the Pope has condemned. He came into office in 1978 in the killing fields in Cambodia, with the death after 33 days of John Paul I, making him the first. That was in 1978. I remember I was correcting remarks, I had to intercept them at the general Post Office, and I thought, this is worth reflecting upon. I said, my Lord, the college of cardinals met for days. The puffs of white smoke went up, they picked somebody, and I said, God said no, I am taking him to heaven. Try again. I did not want that. And they picked, instead of the wonderful Italian, the bishop of Venice, the Cardinal of Venice, they picked this Polish Pope.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the election of Pope John Paul II and its timing with Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.

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