杰拉德·贝克（Gerard Baker）正确地赞扬了教皇利奥十四世（Pope Leo XIV）呼吁世俗化的西方世界再次“仰望”（见《我们都可以仰望的一位世界领袖》，专栏主编，9月29日）。
Gerard Baker rightly celebrates Pope Leo XIV’s summons to a secularized West to “look up” again (“There’s One World Leader We Can All Look Up To,” Editor at Large, Sept. 29).
但仰望并不意味着对政治暴政视而不见。正如贝克先生所提醒我们的，约翰·保罗二世曾激励波兰同胞反抗共产主义统治者，并谴责古巴的人权侵犯行为。富尔顿·希恩（Fulton Sheen）同样猛烈抨击了共产主义和纳粹主义，以及他认为使西方容易遭受暴政侵蚀的文化衰败。
But looking upward need not mean looking away from political tyranny. As Mr. Baker reminds us, John Paul II galvanized his fellow Poles against their communist masters and condemned human-rights abuses in Cuba. Fulton Sheen likewise fiercely denounced communism and Nazism, as well as the cultural decay he believed left the West vulnerable to tyranny.