Posted on 09/03/2006 12:43:14 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Paris mayor renames Notre Dame square after John Paul II, prompting protests
PARIS About 200 demonstrators staged a sit-in near Paris' Notre Dame cathedral Sunday protesting the inauguration of a new John Paul II Square because of the late pope's stance on AIDS and contraception.
City legislators and members of the Green Party and the AIDS activist group Act-Up were among the protesters sitting and lying down on the pavement as Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe led a ceremony formally renaming the square.
"Delanoe is honoring an assassin," some chanted, saying John Paul's opposition to condoms, along with other forms of contraception, was responsible for hundreds, even thousands of deaths to AIDS and other diseases.
Delanoe, joined by Paris Archbishop Andre XXIII, honored the late pope as a "messenger of peace."
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Look at the poor old man on the left, he was trying to help the old woman, it is a shame, the woman in black is younger and for her it is not a matter to maltreat an old person.
I think it might be the other way around, but in any case, the womyn in black looks moments away from a beat-down.
The crazy one looks like one of our American left. What is wrong with these people?
I see, you have the same like us in USA.
I don't understand your question, you asked me what's wrong with left people or what's wrong with the left people prostested in front of Notre Dame in Paris ? Which one ?
We'll see both Muslims and French on the streets. Burning each others' cars.
I bet there will have no problem if they naming it John Francois Kerry Square...
Here the "left" are against Christians and hate Christians. They hate them so much they want to destroy the US and get very angry about it. We call them the crazy left.
I remember a sketch in a book I read as a child. It showed Noahs ark with the water almost over every mountain top with people piled up and in the water shaking their fists at God. These people look the same. They are blaming God instead of themselves.
We have the same in France, I hate them.
Good night ;-)
Isn't it interesting that they use the rainbow as a symbol? It's as if they are using against God the fact that he's promised not to flood the world again, and taking it as an excuse for complete license.
Good night.
It showed Noahs ark with the water almost over every mountain top with people piled up and in the water shaking their fists at God.
Isn't it interesting that they use the rainbow as a symbol? It's as if they are using against God the fact that he's promised not to flood the world again, and taking it as an excuse for complete license.
There's already a square on the other side of Notre Dame named in honor of Pope John XXIII. Of course he was not as controversial.
LOL! I was CERTAIN that one was a feminine male and that you HAD to be referring to the one in pink!!!!!
LOL! I didn't see that one as a woman!
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Wrong thread?
Now no matter what you thought of Pope John II his status in heaven is nowhere near that of the Mother of Christ.
It should not be on earth either.
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I think that, while the cathedral there was named for Our Lady (Notre Dame), the square was named for the cathedral rather than directly for Mary. So, changing its name to honor JPII is no disrespect to the Blessed Mother, IMO.
Yep! I also love gothic buildings. Being a architekt with a extensive education in building history I am into the issue. ;-)
Besides - There are many Parisians who are not anti-American. I have some family there and they are the friendliest people you can think of.
I was there. I was shocked by the excessive force used by the police against protesters - many of whom were merely holding up small signs objecting to the renaming, none of whom were doing anything that could be remotely interpreted as dangerous - merely an exercise in free speech. Police dragged off protesters, including middle-aged women, grabbing them by the hair, with police hands roughly forced over their mouths to prevent them from speaking. At the time, I wasn't sure what the protest was about, but I knew that the police action was seriously over the top.
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