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9 things you should know about Pope Francis
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| Joe Carter
Posted on 03/13/2013 2:51:09 PM PDT by Morgana
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:51:09 PM PDT
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Morgana
To: Morgana
2. He’s the first pope from South America. The only remaining continents that have never had a pope come from their lands are Australia, Antarctica, and North America. There was an Asian pope?
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:53:39 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: Morgana
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:55:25 PM PDT
by
YankeeReb
To: Tanniker Smith
Why do I keep hearing there’s never been a pope from Africa?
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:56:08 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Morgana
An evangelizer, most likely one of the reasons he was elected.
How does he square with the St Malachy prophecy one might wonder.
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:56:11 PM PDT
by
bronxville
(Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
To: Morgana
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:56:17 PM PDT
by
omega4179
To: Tanniker Smith
Probably from Antioch or Alexandria in the early days of the Church.
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:56:24 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Tanniker Smith
There was an Asian pope? As another FR poster pointed out, Peter was the first Pope. He was from Judea (modern Israel). Technically the M.E. is part of the Asian continent
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:57:33 PM PDT
by
YankeeReb
To: Tanniker Smith
There was an Asian pope? Much of Russia and its ancient provinces are in Asia.
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:58:02 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Tanniker Smith; Opinionated Blowhard
Well for starters, the first pope was from Asia.
To: Tanniker Smith
Pope St Gregory III was the last Asian pope, from Syria. (I guess that counts as part of Asia, I’m always a little confused about the Middle East.)
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posted on
03/13/2013 2:59:01 PM PDT
by
mhx
To: Tanniker Smith
Quite a few early Popes were from Syria and a couple from Jerusalem, if I recall.
To: skeeter
Because, according to the media, if you are not from sub-Saharan Africa, you’re not African.
To: mhx
Ah, okay. I guess that counts.
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:06:01 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: bronxville
How does he square with the St Malachy prophecy one might wonder. Is he supposed to?
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:08:45 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
To: Morgana
He’s the first pope since 897 with a completely new name never used before (since John Paul I was honoring two recent popes, John XXIII and Paul VI).
To: Alex Murphy
well, he’s a pope, so that’s like Peter, and the Vatican’s in Rome, so... ahh, Malachy just put that in there because he was a wise guy.
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:10:39 PM PDT
by
mhx
To: Morgana
The only remaining continents that have never had a pope come from their lands are Australia, Antarctica, and North America.
This is really unfair to the indigenous people of Antarctica. They are a gentle folk who have never gone to war.
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:16:11 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
“This is really unfair to the indigenous people of Antarctica. They are a gentle folk who have never gone to war.”
That’s because they are penguins.
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:28:39 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
To: flaglady47
That’s because they are penguins.
Don’t hate!
;-)
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posted on
03/13/2013 3:32:00 PM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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