I was extremely fortunately to be walking down Via Concilliazione in 1978, in the Vatican, with family and friends. We had a perfect view of the chimney from which the smoke announcing the selection of a new Pope by the Conclave emanates, watched the smoke rise, then turn black. Pope John Paul I had a very short-lived papacy. I was at work in the Embassy the following week, they announced the selection of JP II. The Italian police guarding the perimeter were agog, shouting “Il Polacco, Il Polacco!!”
KMOV’s FB page has the most disturbing Catholic bashing I have ever seen. Most of it groundless and the folks that are pushing it freak out when some disses the Obama. It is not like me t0 be affected by it. I was shaken by the venom and ignorance. The Church has its work cut out..