Peace. Your comments and prayers are most welcome here.
Update [2005-4-3 10:38:22 by susanhbu]: See “The web remembers Pope John Paul II,” at The Guardian: “Pope John Paul II is being mourned in the online world, just as in the physical world.”
Peace. Your comments and prayers are most welcome here.
Update [2005-4-3 10:38:22 by susanhbu]: See “The web remembers Pope John Paul II,” at The Guardian: “Pope John Paul II is being mourned in the online world, just as in the physical world.”
My understanding is that he wanted to be an example for elders by staying active, even though he was old and ill. (Sorry I don’t have a link.) I hope that message got through, because as we Boomers come to older, maybe we can be a help rather than a burden. That’s what the elders I know all want, but they’re shuffled aside to sit in front of a TV or lie in a bed.
He’s a great example for that.
God bless him.
Requiescant in pace, John Paul II!
In this hour of your death, may we all show kindness and forgiveness.
Let’s pray for the cardinals who will now choose a new leader. The Catholic Church desperately needs enlightened, modern leadership.
I am here in Munich and it has been quiet here all day. The only sounds I heard was the occasional ambulance siren. It was a beautiful sunny day here and I took my children to the park and to the Biergarten and was surprised as to how empty it was. Generally, the Englischer Garten is filled with people walking, dogs, bicycles and roller bladers. I think many people here in Munich were unified in prayer today for the Pope and for peace. I am an atheist but I decided not to do laundry out of respect for my Catholic neighbors who were praying for the Pope today.
I loved visiting your beautiful city.
Pope John Paul II greets an American Indian Catholic during a ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona.
(Newsday File Photo / Daniel Goodrich)
September 14, 1987
– from the Chicago Tribune’s wonderful photo gallery, “Pope and the people“
Pope John Paul II kisses an unidentified baby at the end of a general weekly audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
(AP File Photo)
March 14, 2001
Susan,
Thanks for these great pictures! They show John Paul II at his best!
To the spirit of John Paul II:
If you were one tenth the man of the man/deity you worshipped, then you have done more for world peace than any other man in the past 50 years.
If we, as the combined individuals that make up the human race, were one tenth the person you were, there would be world peace today.
Betty or Barney?
Sorry, accidently replied as a new comment. Am a barney
hey barney…how’s betty? yabba dabba dooooooo
Okay, you two. btw, our friend Fredrick is almost up on Air America!
and thought i may have missed him…
LOL, I’m a Barney.
hi jacking this dead Pope thread?
Yes! But Pastor Dan, no doubt, will forgive you. He’s a lot more liberal than the Pope.
you listening to Fred Clarkson? I am
He sounds much more grown-up than us! (Did you giggle in church? I did.)
I’ll probably go to hell with Chamonix for hijacking the thread, but in my defense, you did pose the question.
Last time I had a giggle in church I was 7 years old. I made eye contact with a fellow schoolmate across the aisle, and that was all she wrote, folks. We both engaged in one of those fits of giggling where the harder you tried to hide it the worse it got. (Picture Mary Tyler Moore during the Chuckles the Clown episode)
Before I knew it, I had slipped off the kneeler, my two front teeth were stuck in the pew in front of me (no longer attached to my gums) and I was screaming to high heaven as my mother whisked me out of the church with as much dignity as possible. I figured I was being punished by God for goofing around, and I don’t recall giggling in church again.
I loved the “Chuckles bites the dust” episode, I am hoping those were your baby teeth. I knocked my baby teeth out 2 months after I got them…yes..I was a real baby..and didn’t get the others for years..I had a awful speech impediment for years…toothless me. ARE YOU TOOTHLESS NOW?
This man closed his eyes to AIDS and third world overpopulation with his views regarding birth control. I’m not sorry to see a change.
Moreover, I’m a bit sick of the breathless usuage of “The Holy Father” as a descriptor. I believe that such terms should be used by his followers, not news reporters.
He was a tireless advocate of peace.
AIDS seems to hit worst in areas which are already war torn. Look at the on-going war in the Congo. 3 million dead. 1000 dead a day. Huge AIDS presence. Haiti too is high in terms of AIDS and was invaded this year. War rides in first and then famine, pestilence and death.
I don’t deny that he might have been an advocate of peace but I can’t be convinced that his views on birth control were anything but amoral.
Regarding the above expressed hope: I wouldn’t hold my breath. The Catholic Church has not changed essentially since the Middle Ages.
I am sorry Pope John Paul II has died. More than that, I regret that he had to suffer physical hardship for so long.
Any institution that does not bear up well under intelligent scrutiny needs to make serious adjustments.I don’t see this happening in the Church, no matter who is elected Pope.