don't hate on the pope in poland

In Poland today, Jerzy Urban is fined $6,500 for satirizing Pope John Paul II in a weekly newspaper of which he is the editor-in-chief. Says BBC,

"In his article, titled Walking Sadomasochism, Mr Urban referred to the Pope's frailty, describing him as 'the Brezhnev of the Vatican' and an 'impotent old man'."

... I don't get it.

(Link to BBC article)