In my wife’s home city of Wroclaw, there’s a luxuryhotel named after John Paul II. It has always seemed strange that the Catholicchurch sanctioned this. Giant chandeliers and glitzy bathrooms weren’t reallywhat St John Paul stood for, and since the hotel opened in 2002 it had seemedas much a monument to the church’s decline as a tribute to a saint.
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Luke Coppen is Europe editor of the Catholic News Agency. He edited the Catholic Herald from 2004 to 2020.
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