Post 100 & 101
A poem from Rosie O'Donnell:
so now - today - some givens
i have 4 children
the youngest is vivi - she is 2
i am 43
the pope has died
i have a rock star in my swimming pool
who looks like eminem
life is good
http://onceadored.blogspot.com/2005/04/pregnant-pause.html
Thanks for the ping.
I think the media has been pretty respectful to the Pope, not that they had a whole lot of choice going up against such love for the man with sniping and hate. But I think they probably admired him too, because he was nobody's puppet. He understood that capitalism unchecked is as deadly for the common man as socialism is. They probably liked him for that. Easy bank shot.
He was opposed to the death penalty and the war, again something is shared. Being that they are nowhere near his equal, and they know that, they can't just dismiss him because of the things they disagree with him on. That's not the way it works in Pope John Paul's situation. He was too sincere, too intelligent and too Holy for that.
But, I do think that the honeymoon is not about to last much longer. Read George Neumayr's piece at the American Spectator Online. I think it was published yesterday, and did appear on this site, just in case you didn't catch it. He goes into forceful detail about what the goal is of those who are likely to commence with some sniping.
I've often bemoaned and complained simultaneously about the lack or excess of power of the Cathoic laity or faithful. As the days grew closer to the Holy Father's burial, I began to think about just how easily the laity could turn around the bad set of circumstances that the Church faces, just by being faithful Catholics. Faithful to her teachings. If we fail, which it seems we must, we just pick ourselves up and attempt the Holy life again. And again, and again, as long as it takes.
I think the Orthodox faithful recognize this, and that's why they have a cohesion that we don't. They voluntarily embrace Tradition, they voluntarily want to preserve it. They are quite admirable and wonderful in that way. That's why they can stand the de-centralization. We could too, if our faithful were made of the same stern but loving stuff.
Chesteron was right. It isn't that Christianity has been tried and left wanting, it's that it's too difficult and as such has been left untried.
I refuse to read anything negative today out of respect for John Paul the Great -- RIP.
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Yup. the usual suspects...
notice no one mentins that the psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins "cleared" many of the priests? Heck, I'm old enough to remember when Newsweek lauded the fact that California was releasing pedophiles into the community for out patient treatment instead of jailing them...