Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, 02 April 2005 21:33.
Great men are rare beings, and the Catholic world has lost one this evening. Few Pope’s have been more loved than the Polish Pope or meant more to non-Catholics, too. May he rest in peace.
Posted by Fred Scrooby on Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:24 | #
He was indeed a great man and a great pope, not the least of whose achievements was, of course, his success together with the Iron Lady and the Gipper (what a Trio of Greats that was!) in toppling the Soviet Union to dust and with it the other communist governments of Eastern Europe without firing a shot.
May the next pope live up to the the high example this one set.
May God grant us a next pope who will be receptive to the need for an explicit, crystal-clear, absolutely unequivocal statement from the Vatican that it is perfectly OK for Catholics to take reasonable, humane steps aimed at preserving intact their racial, ethnocultural, and national patrimonies; that doing so on the part of individual private Catholics and Catholic government officials is fully and completely consistent with Bible teaching and with good Catholicism.
Posted by Fred Scrooby on Sun, 03 Apr 2005 01:24 | #
He was indeed a great man and a great pope, not the least of whose achievements was, of course, his success together with the Iron Lady and the Gipper (what a Trio of Greats that was!) in toppling the Soviet Union to dust and with it the other communist governments of Eastern Europe without firing a shot.
May the next pope live up to the the high example this one set.
May God grant us a next pope who will be receptive to the need for an explicit, crystal-clear, absolutely unequivocal statement from the Vatican that it is perfectly OK for Catholics to take reasonable, humane steps aimed at preserving intact their racial, ethnocultural, and national patrimonies; that doing so on the part of individual private Catholics and Catholic government officials is fully and completely consistent with Bible teaching and with good Catholicism.