Pope John Paul II helped bring down the Iron Curtain in Europe, but he was no match for Monica Lewinsky in Cuba. Shortly after the Pontiff arrived for his historic visit to the communist island in 1998, the media horde stampeded back to the U.S. to cover the emerging sex scandal engulfing Bill Clinton's presidency. But John Paul was probably just as glad the journalists left: it helped lower expectations about what he was supposed to accomplish. Cuba wasn't Poland--Fidel Castro was a more daunting despot than Wojciech Jaruzelski--and John Paul knew that democratic change wouldn't arrive on the island until...
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