POPE TAKEN TO OPERATING ROOM!!!!! (Tracheotomy was a success)

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

FOX NEWS: Pope has been taken to operating room. Doctors preparing to operate.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I won't argue with the fact that some of us have less malice in the heart than others. I would like to think I am one of those people. I can understand as a non-Catholic, the siginificance of the Pope in the Catholic faith.

[JennysCool]

Sorry for the honesty.

What a poor excuse for an apology.

[RobbyS]

Would you say the same thing if this were someone's grandfather?... Maybe you would.

[FloridianBushFan]

I pray that God will watch over the Pope and the Catholic Church and his will be done during this time.

[KevinDavis]

I remember when John John died.. I think it was 2 weeks of non stop coverage.

[areafiftyone]

Thanks for the update - I'm in my cubie here at work.

[Texaggie79]

I apologize. That is why I asked the Admin to remove my original post. I was not thinking of your greif at the time.

[Conservatrix]

That's right. Go "tell" on somebody because you disagree with them! The true nature of discourse!!!
The only opinions that are allowed here are NOT the ones that everyone has to agree on!

[Petronski]

God if this be the end grant him a peaceful painless death.

Amen.

I am happy that, if we cannot have John Paul much longer, at least we will have his fabulous new book.

[cspackler]

Man, a little difference of opinion really gets people's intellects to shut off, doesn't it!

No, it's just that you're making a childish attempt to be the turd in the punchbowl...

[Howlin]

Please show some class and just be quiet...

Evidently there is a small group of Freepers who come to threads like these like flies drawn to a picnic, just to show their utter lack of class and shamelessness.

[Jrabbit]

Thank you.....

[don-o]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, that to run ones pie hole and remove all doubt.

[Rutles4Ever]

I apologize to everyone for trading barbs with conservatrix and texasaggie. I should know better than to do this...

[SuziQ]

It'd be a big shock if he passes away, but my heart is ready when he's accepted to God's glory.

I'm relying on Christ's promise, that the gates of hell will not prevail against His Church.

The Holy Spirit will take John Paul II home to the Lord, and guide the Cardinals when the time comes.

[Miss Marple]

Indeed. They show up on live threads, too.

[richmwill]

I was going to basically say the same- but just a little nicer, man! Wow- well, thanks for taking the heat off of me today. :)

[mike182d]

Update on the time:

"Sky Italia television said the surgeons would perform a tracheotomy at 8:30 p.m. (7.30 p.m. GMT), cutting a small opening into the Pontiff's neck and the windpipe to allow air to flow directly into the lungs."

[newzjunkey]

He's not that old. He just appears that old and frail because he's seen a *lot* in life. Lolek is his birth name:

It struck again in 1929 when his mother died of heart and kidney problems, just a month before Lolek's 9th birthday. And when he was 12, Lolek's 26-year-old brother Edmund, a physician in the town of Bielsko, died of scarlet fever.

Lolek, himself, had two near-misses with mortality in his youth. He was hit once by a streetcar and again by a truck in 1944 while a college student. The injuries left the otherwise robust pope -- 5-foot-10 1/2 inches, 175 pounds in his prime -- with a slight stoop to his shoulders that is particularly noticeable when he is tired...

Even as an adult he has been beset by physical difficulties, including a dislocated shoulder, a broken thigh that led to femur-replacement surgery, the removal of a precancerous tumor from his colon and an attempt on his life by a gunman whose two bullets wounded the pope in the abdomen, right arm and left hand.

Here's his biography

[sassbox]

ditto what spectre said. If you want to debate the merits of Catholicism, start your own thread some other time. THis is not the appropriate forum for it. Show some class or please just leave.