Pope writes of his death, rules out resignation in epic poem

smh ^

[kcar]

Go ahead and flame me. Translation: In the final stages mental flatulence can often be mistaken as deep lucid thinking - may God help us if that is true!

[Migraine]

Most of this is pretty dark stuff. I'm surprised to read so little of Christ and the healing power of the Gospel. One would think he'd be almost obsessed with those matters.

On the other hand, it shows he is very humble and human, maybe even "simple" (if such could be said of a man who knows as much as he).

[annyokie]

I love the Holy Father, but it is time for him to pass the hat.

[Romulus]

If you want to find the source, you have to go up, against the current, ...

Like all experienced outdoorsmen with a well-developed sense of where to pitch camp, the Holy Father's keenly aware of the importance of a good water supply. The water to be sought above all is the highest water, water at its source: clean, clear, simple, and coolest where it springs from living Rock.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

I'll bet you know quite a bit about mental flatulence. Fortunately there are those whose opinions are far more credible. Indeed, may God help you.

'Czeslaw Milosz, the leading Polish poet and Nobel Prize for literature winner, said: "There are many poets and many poems, but there are few poems of such profoundness.

"It is a conversation between man and God."'

source

[TSgt]

The Last Pope: Examining Nostradamus and Malachy (No. 288)

According to Malachy there are only two popes left to go.

http://www.logon.org/english/s/p288.html

[kcar]

Well - the Nobel Prize trumps all then.

[kcar]

Did you mean Malarchy?

[Conservative til I die]

Let's see: Pope, or mental midget kcar? Pope, or kcar. Tough decision.

[kcar]

Thanks for the unbridled endorsement! See there Papists!

[Conservative til I die]

See there Papists!

Well at least you willingly exposed yourself as a knuckledragging bigot. I'll see ya at the next Klan rally.

[Slyfox]

This stuff is very spiritual. The only people who will appreciate it are those who are also spirtual.

Another article

[kcar]

Sure. See you there. I'll be four sheets to the wind.

Let me know when the Pope endorses Peace - with Freedom!!!! - or renounces socialist denunciations of capitalism. Until then...

[gcruse]

I think his poor old brain died some time ago.

[irish guard]

Actually, while this pope was lucid and active, most of his writings and sermons involved discussions about Christ, acting more Christlike and follwing the teachings of Christ. The more I see of this guy, the more I like him. I think he is attended to by some very bad people who let the priests of the Church do evil things and for that I am devastated. However, it does not dull my love of Christ or the Catholic Church.

[kcar]

And yet it is still infallible - whatever he says. AMAZING!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

The universe emerged from the Word, and returns to the Word.

How very Tao.

I'm not Catholic, but I love the Pope's poetry. It really moves me, especially his early stuff.

I would urge anybody who hasn't read his poetry, to do so. It's really incredible.

I guess the naysayers on this thread aren't into poetry.

[Arthur McGowan]

And yet it is still infallible - whatever he says.

That is not what Catholics believe about Papal Infallibility. The Pope is infallible on a narrow range of issues, under specific conditions--pretty much the same conditions under which a Baptist preacher believes himself to be infallible. Namely, when he is teaching what has been preached always and everywhere by those who have gone before him.

You have exposed yourself for the umpteenth time as a bigot.

[CWW]

"And yet it is all infallible" --

Your ignorance of the Catholic faith is glaring. The teaching of infalliblity is only invoked on certian very specific issues of faith and morals -- e.g., Christ is the Son of God; Christ arose from the dead, etc...."

There have been very few papal pronouncements in the last 100 years that would even fall within the doctrine of infallibility.

The doctrine if infallibility does not mean, as you imply, that the Pope is perfoect or that he never sins or that everything he says is correct."

Please pass it on to others who make similar uniformed statements.