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1 posted on 05/01/2011 2:20:42 PM PDT by NYer
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Ping!


2 posted on 05/01/2011 2:21:22 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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The Blessed's Jewish friends in the drama society (when he was a student-actor in what was known as the Rhapsodic Theatre) called him Lolek, which is short for Karol. Now that people are calling him "Blessed John Paul the Great," those who remmeber the old days call him "Lolek the Mensch."

Personally, I like that very much.

3 posted on 05/01/2011 2:45:59 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Just to Be is a Blessing; just to Live is Holy." Rabbi Abraham Heschel)
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To me, Pope John Paul II will alway be a part of the greatest earthly triumverate that ever lived....the Pope, President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher.

Together, they took on the most powerful and aggressive foe that freedom ever faced....and beat it down!

Leni

14 posted on 05/02/2011 7:57:27 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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Where do Pius IX and Pius XII stand at this point? Converstions about their canonizations seem to have stopped completely; I’d think they’d be at least as much a priority as JPII.


19 posted on 05/02/2011 6:15:34 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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