Posted on 04/01/2005 10:22:54 AM PST by Dont Mention the War
Confirmed.
My dad passed away 18 days ago on March 14th. Dad didn't step into church unless it was for Holy Communion, Confirmation, Marriage or Funeral. I only hope that he has seen the Lord by now. He was the most favorite person in my life. Too much to take in the last couple of weeks. I am especially weepy today. A man that I personally knew and loved so much gone from my life and the Pope, who I did not know personally who I love so much.
I think he'll get the answer tomorrow.
Before JPII was elected he probably had little clue that he would be the one. That's usually the case. There are stories about the balloting, but they are not very reliable because all the cardinals promise that they will not divulge how it all took place to anyone outside the conclave.
So we have various legends about this or that conclave, but there is no official record. Two conflicting stories would not be reconcilable.
I'm so sorry, JHW. I'll be sure to keep him and you and your family in my prayers.
The Pope is a complex man. I can't endorse everything he's done, such as the way he beat up the US over Iraq. Or his warm meeting years ago with the Iraqi tyrant Tariq Aziz. Or his protection of the vile Cardinal Law.
But these are failures against a wider backdrop, one in which he stood for freedom and against communism.
I think this is what his legacy will be.
ok missy, you're totally losing me with this one???? :)
If I could have a dollar for every time I did that...
I heard Fred Barnes say that Evangelical Protestant Christians revere Pope John Paul II for his strong adherance to traditional Christian faith - in spite of a world becoming more and more secularized. How true!
Will there ever be another so great? Heaven's gain is going to be our world's great great loss. Have mercy on this world, dear God.
That was in Nicaragua, during the Marxist Sandinista rule. The Sandinistas had tried to co-opt the church by setting up an official church and tying it to the vile "liberation theology". Liberation theology was an attempt to tie Marxism to Christianity.
The Pope visited Nicaragua and read them the riot act, and thoroughly undermined the false "official" church and its "leaders" (actually puppets). That was the incident you recall.
Thank you so much. He left behind his wife of 58 years, nine children, two sons who had already passed on, 20 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Quite a clan!
Universal pastor of all Christians.
Safe journey, Papa!
i hope you have enjoyed your very short stay...... see you soon under another screen name i'm sure, loser...
You've made me start crying again. God bless you.
I'm glad someone mirrors my sentiments. We trust the news (maybe we shouldn't!), and then we get dumped on. It is well worth remembering this morning, that the media has such power, now. The wrong people in control of it could really turn society inside out with certain specific words at just the right time. If we learn not to trust the media we would be better off, it seems to me.
Prayers for the Holy Father: St. Joseph, patron of a holy death, pray for John Paul II.
So then Peter the Roman won't be bad?
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By JUAN O. TAMAYO
Herald Staff Writer
MANAGUA -- The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal still gets huffy when he's asked about that famous image: Pope John Paul II wagging a finger at Cardenal as the bearded priest knelt before him.
``Meaningless,'' Cardenal snapped, even though that scene 16 years ago came to symbolize the bitter fight between the pontiff and Roman Catholic theologians who advocated ``a preferential option for the poor.''
``I am still a revolutionary who defends the poor. And liberation theology is in crisis. Capitalism won. Period. What more can be said?'' Cardenal said in a brief and plainly reluctant telephone chat.
Liberation theology, the doctrine that dominated the Latin American church in the 1970s and '80s, has today indeed lost most of its punch. Its ranks have been thinned or silenced by the Pope, its popularity sapped by political reverses.
Thank you for your very thoughtful post. He is not just our Pope. He cares about all of us. We welcome your company at this sad time.
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