[Alex Murphy]

Carl Olson: The first time I really thought about Pope John Paul II was when I watched him being ripped to shreds. Not literally, thankfully, although there was actual ripping involved. I was an Evangelical at the time, a year removed from Bible college and living in Portland, Oregon. One evening, in October 1992, my housemates and I tuned into “Saturday Night Live”, which was notable since I rarely watched television and I had little interest in watching Irish singer Sinead O'Connor perform. But I did watch, and therefore saw her take a photo of John Paul II and angrily rip into pieces while snarling, “Fight the real enemy!” O'Connor's act caused a furor and forever altered her then-promising career. I had been raised in a Fundamentalist home and had spent my youth mouthing the usual anti-Catholic nonsense about Catholics worshiping Mary, worshiping a piece of bread, and worshiping the Pope.

So begins the typical Protestant-bashing Catholic drivel on FR.

[CynicalBear]

>>So begins the typical Protestant-bashing Catholic drivel on FR.<<

They don't do that. They told us so! /s

[RnMomof7]

So begins the typical Protestant-bashing Catholic drivel on FR.

This strikes me as actually funny ...the world loved him.. He kissed the ground, he kissed the koran .. The public thought he was the second coming .. much like they do Francis today.. a "modern" pope ...

if memory serves "traditionalists" were not thrilled with him either..

[metmom]

But we’re to;d that Catholics really do worship the eucharist.