Vicar of Rome will recite rosary at St. Peter’s Square at 2 pm EST (via Fox / Sky Italia; not yet confirmed by the Vatican).
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update: Vatican sources saying the Pope is still alive, but very near death.
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Good thing he died before they could pull the feeding tube.
Craig, you pig.
May God rest his soul.
il papa sta andando a casa
I’m not a Catholic but may he rest in peace.
Requiscat in Pacem
Rest in Peace
Dead,not dead. Psych!!
Maybe they’ve put him in a sealed box and he’s both dead and alive at the same time. Schrodinger’s Pope!
How sad. I was raised Catholic and the one bit of Catholicism I never even tried to get rid of was loving this pope. It shook me up seeing him like that on the news this week. Craig may be a pig, but I laughed out loud at that.
i think he’d like to go for a walk.
PW reports that italian news agency reports that Fox News reports that BBC reports that CNN denies report that denies the initial report that the vatican reported that…oh never mind.
I’m enjoying the mea culpas coming from Fox News for the too-early report of passing. 24/7 news. What a train wreck.
Life becomes a Monty Python film
“becomes”?
Where do you think they got their ideas?
Drudge eats another rushed headline.
spamword increase, as in “an increase in the number of false alarms.”
Ah. Sad. Another 84 years of pointy hat wearing fun washes past. Let the good times roll Pauly.
My spam word was woman. As in, The Pope has never slept with a woman.
Yes, I realize I’m on the HOV lane to hell. I’ll have dinner ready for you.
I’m actually feeling much better now.
Shank,
I’m afraid I must decline. Unless you are on the spit.
All the best in your continuing vacuity,
Gerard
Shank–Pork products, mullosks, and cheeseburgers all around!
I’m not a catholic but as someone who studied quite a bit about the fall of communism, its not an understatement to say that Pope John Paul was an integral part of ending the communist menace. For years and years, he was a man of respect and dignity- the past few years, he’s been less steadfast in his committment to free people’s but i suspect thats a result of his age and the people around him who don’t share his beliefs in free societies.
Shank,
That’s probably not true, since he had a period in his young adulthood where he had no intention of joining the priesthood.
If there’s anyone here who thinks my crack was a dis at the pope, well, it wasn’t. And stop thinking about my crack.
I thought it was pretty obvious what that was about.
Craig, I sure didn’t take it that way. I got a hell of a laugh out of it. I don’t think you’re a pig, I was just trying to keep on the good side of Ana because she’s already watching me.
Well, ok, but stop thinking about my crack. You were, weren’t you? Of course, I mean that stupid crack in my exterior wall, not the crack I smoke every night.
can we think about crackin’ your skull?
yeah, nice try with the spam word. i filed my taxes long ago.
You can think about it, but BRING IT, Maggie. If that is in fact your name.
Ha. Spamword, “true”
True dat, boyeeeee
He was a bitterly reactionary conservative about Church doctrine, and rolled back changes brought to modernize the Church after Vatican II, during which he himself had argued strongly for human rights, as well those proposed by his immediate, more liberal, predecessor. He attacked liberation theology, the idea of an activist Christ, continued the Turin Shroud hoax, brought the ultra-conservative Opus Dei to formal power, reduced the power of the Jesuits for being too liberal and politically engaged. He damned homosexuals, contraception, abortion, and the rights of women, while praising missionary fanatics like the vile Mother Teresa. He deepened the divide between dogma and the real modern world. And perhaps, worst of all, it was on his watch that thousands of pedophile priests ran rampant and were afforded safe haven against prosecution in secular courts. In short, he was the Ken Lay of religion.
All this nonsense about his role in the fall of Communism is just that, as specious as the claims made of Reagan last year. In fifty years, once the Church has been forced into progressivism to stem the loss of believers in an increasingly secular world, he’ll be seen for what he was- a bulwark against modernism and human dignity. Yes, he spoke out against wars, but was also against World War 2. In short, he would have emulated the complicity the Church had in Mussolini’s rise to power. All in all, not alot there- and most of it negative.
The Pope is dead! Let’s abolish the post! DAN
*All this nonsense about his role in the fall of Communism is just that, as specious as the claims made of Reagan last year.*
I bow to your obviously superior knowledge of revisionist history.
Word- Some- as in “Some people think they are alot smarter then they actually are”
actually papa was the vicar of Christ