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Nobody really listens to the pope anyway, he has lost his credibility, but I guess he feels the need to crack the whip to try to keep the peasants in line.
Nobody really listens to the pope anyway, he has lost his credibility, but I guess he feels the need to crack the whip to try to keep the peasants in line.
Oh come on, give your pope a chance to prove himself ... after all, he's the "infallible" pope ... oh, except when he makes mistakes !!!
I have to admit I just haven't warmed to him like I did John Paul II.
It's like when I was a kid. We had this old priest who was a really sweet guy. I really admired him and that the parish seemed to mock him as a boring old fuddy-duddy just made me like him more. Then he had a stroke and the new priest came. I didn't ever warm to the new guy. Oddly the guy who replaced him I did warm too.
John Paul II was Pope from my first awareness of things to well into my adulthood. So I feel bad about it, but I haven't warmed to this one. (Although another factor is I think John Paul II was conservative without seeming...well backward. He traveled, he socialized, he listened to modern music, etc. Some prefer Benedict as he's tougher on the abuse thing, but I find him more remote in some respects.)
Nobody really listens to the pope anyway, he has lost his credibility, but I guess he feels the need to crack the whip to try to keep the peasants in line.
ROME — Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanize the faithful, the Pope said.
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to "admit blame and promise to sin no more," they risked "eternal damnation — the Inferno."
I have to admit I just haven't warmed to him like I did John Paul II.
It's like when I was a kid. We had this old priest who was a really sweet guy. I really admired him and that the parish seemed to mock him as a boring old fuddy-duddy just made me like him more. Then he had a stroke and the new priest came. I didn't ever warm to the new guy. Oddly the guy who replaced him I did warm too.
John Paul II was Pope from my first awareness of things to well into my adulthood. So I feel bad about it, but I haven't warmed to this one. (Although another factor is I think John Paul II was conservative without seeming...well backward. He traveled, he socialized, he listened to modern music, etc. Some prefer Benedict as he's tougher on the abuse thing, but I find him more remote in some respects.)
You fell in love with the rock star image, John Paul II was very backwards, he was backwards back at Vatican II.
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