Posted on 03/31/2005 9:54:01 PM PST by bd476
Edited on 04/02/2005 7:53:51 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
They are interviewing a priest and it is so lame...like the Cardinals are going to campaign!
Kate
Well, I'm sure they are probably clearing their calendars for the next several weeks. In any case once he does pass it will be followed by nine days of mourning then the conclave will assemble in the sistine chapel and the process will begin then...
Without JPII, Poland would not be free and the Soviet Union would still exist/be a threat to world peace. He IS the father of modern-day Poland. It's the only country where he hasn't rode in the armored popemobile.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1450821,00.html
Poles stage vigils for national hero
Even if the cardinals did a little campaigning they are sworn to utmost secrecy about not talking about details of the conclave...this is just media shennanigans.
There will be people who want the job, and no doubt they will do what they can to line up support...or there will be people who want certain people in the job, and they may do some quickie lobbying, but they don't have a lot of time to do any of this.
And it's done prayerfully, and knowing what's at stake.
I can't speak from any other experience because I was born in Feb of 1979, just a few short months after he became Pope (JPII was elected by the conclave of cardinals in October of 78), so for my generation it is like having FDR as president for the early baby boomers and maybe those at the tail end of the WWII generation--all they knew for as long as they could remember...
In my mind I cannot even remember what the Pope looked like before Pope John Paul.
I had tears in my eyes this afternoon when CNN's reporter was live from Krakow and was talking about how thousands of Poles had showed up at the home of the Archbishop to pray for the Holy Father.
Same here .. I kind of remember Paul VI .. same with John Paul I
John Paul II has been Pope since I was 14 years old
Paul John Paul II has been such a bigger than life figure that it blocked out everyone else. Vatican News Service is getting ready to close for several hours.
I agree with you -- I was talking about not remembering what the Popes before him looked like.
There are many stories about the Pope's sense of humor and love of laughter. I'm looking forward to hearing them in the coming days as events of his life are replayed in the media.
No sweat. I was only making a dramatic literary point.
This is from the BBC website:
Cardinals - who will elect a new pope after John Paul dies - are arriving in Rome from all over the world, the Italian media have reported.
Link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4402323.stm
I was about the same age and I very vaguely remember Pope Paul VI and the only reason I remember anything about JP I is because (1)of houw short a time he was Pope and (2) JP II took JP I's name in his honor. If I wasn't attending a Catholic school I don't even think I would have remembered that.
Off to check out that link. Thanks!
Kate
I remember the day Pope JPII become the Pope
It was the day of my brothers Wedding and my aunt (she was a nun) had us all watching the TV and when it was announce, she lead us all in prayer
I remember sitting in the classroom at schol and they either announced that JP I had died or that JP II had been chosen...but I just don't remember. If there wasn't info on TV, I wouldn't even get that "snapshot" of myself sitting there in the uniform as I recall just about nothing of that year (and other parts of life) due to amnesia. I went form no memory at all to throwing one heck of a tantrum in the hospital as I remembered something extremely important based on what I overheard and then the rest has just come back gradually. I even told my doctor my name by having cheated and read it off of the arm band and wasn't really certain...
that is a great memory
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