Posted on 02/13/2005 1:53:33 PM PST by kellynla
At church on Sunday the congregation was asked to pray for the recovery of the Pope. I have abstained from doing so. I hope that he will not recover.
The seizure brought on by his dramatic trip to the hospital a week ago suggests the international sense of his indispensability. Pope John Paul is a graphic figure in the lives of Catholics and many non-Catholics. He is of course a towering theological figure who has presided over the development of Catholic thought and practice for the 26 years of his papacy. He is a major historical figure, who began as a Catholic seminarian in a Poland subservient first to a Nazi overlord (they hanged him in Nuremberg), then to a Communist overlord (nothing happened to him — the Communists are never prosecuted). From that scene he succeeded to the Holy See, where he was the symbol of hope and, after the Communists fell, of triumph, distinctive in his bid for international recognition as a God-fearing man of good will.
I remember him as he was leaving Havana to return to Rome. Fidel Castro was there to recite the diplomatic amenities. The pope was standing on the gangway of his airplane and suddenly rain fell. As John Paul spoke under an improvised parasol, his three-minute farewell address evolved, in near-perfect Spanish, into a homily on water's purifying mission. All of Cuba watched on television, no doubt hoping, for an exhilarating moment, that Castro would melt away, Cuba shriven from the antipodal reign of a tyrant who came to power even before the pope did, and will outlast him.
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Bill Buckley helped save the nation?! I don't know about that. He writes interesting columns and occassionally goes off kilter, but saving the nation?
"God will determine the time of his death."
THANK YOU!
I am sorry :{{{{
***Oh, kelly, not really. I am Catholic and pray often for God's will to be done rather than for the result that I want.***
You have it right, bahbah. So often the result we ask for is NOT what would be best for us.
Ref. post #49. Point taken.
You could be right, it's just that when I see the man he looks so frail it becomes easy to automatically assume he's that way mentally as well. He's never really been the same physically after that assassination attempt to begin with.
Do you want to go to Church next weekend? I like the San Fernando Mission. Creaky old pews and good loud priests.
There is none. They will say anything to get attention.
anyone that would call WFB a buffoon needs to pay closer attention to the subject at hand.
Now I feel awful. Please just rephrase what you had to say. I know it's important.
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It is for God to decide who is or is not a devout Catholic.
It is God's timing, not ours.
He did more to move the nation to the right with National Review that all the Birchers and American Mercury folks could have ever imagined in their wildest wet dreams. Yes, he had a role. Just my opinion, obviously not yours.
You must immediately BOW DOWM and ask for forgiveness from us:) And no pharting is allowed.
Correctomundo!
I pray that he will soon be out of his misery. If people on this thread disagree, that's fine - we can have different opinions on the subject. It's not in our hands anyway.
BTW, I think Buckley and Chambers blew it big time by discounting the contributions of Ayn Rand, losing a potential ally (notwithstanding her own peculiarities). We all make mistakes on our respective paths.
"It is for God to decide who is or is not a devout Catholic."
exactly...and I and no one else here knows how "devout" a Catholic Buckley is...although he definitely could use some tutoring regarding Catholicism and praying for folks...LOL
BTW I think it's safe to say that Hitler was not a "devout Catholic"
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