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My guess is that in the next couple of weeks, we will see people across the political spectrum using the Pope's name to support their agenda.
My sentiments exactly.nbcrusader said:My guess is that in the next couple of weeks, we will see people across the political spectrum using the Pope's name to support their agenda.
I'm not sure what's not to like about Billy Graham, but I get annoyed with Franklin's ongoing obsession with politics. Billy always had a way of avoiding them as much as possible.melon said:Franklin Graham is a complete nut. He'll never have the more universal appeal of Billy Graham (even though I dislike him too).
nbcrusader said:My guess is that in the next couple of weeks, we will see people across the political spectrum using the Pope's name to support their agenda.
Teta040 said:that starting in 2006, when the next batch of textbooks is published, no health class in any American high school will have a textbook that mentions condoms, birth control, or STD's. No mention of these subjects will be found in any American textbook that is used in Health Class. Yes, that is right, you are not reading things. As part of its methods to combat the spread of AIDS, abstinence is tops on a list of methods, that includes 'Get plenty of rest' and "feel good about yourself." (I'm not making this up.) This is how we we according to school teachings, fight the growing threat of AIDS.
whenhiphopdrovethebigcars said:in Italy people are already playing the lottery of who will be the next pope those crazy italians
lady luck said:
It's not the only thing we're doing...
We are also standing on very long lines to pay respect to the pope...
... and praying a lot, not only in Roma, but in the whole Country.
Pearl said:What I find so sad about the Pope's death is that there isn't a great leader, or anyone on the world scene to look up now. While I didn't agree with him on a lot of things, I felt you could look towards him when the world was in chaos. But now that he's gone, there's no one that the people could look up to.
That was clear to me while watching his funeral. There was not one person there - the presidents, the Prime Ministers, the dignitaries - who would receive a funeral like the Pope. They might get a grand ceremony and a lot of world leaders in attendance, but never that many and there won't be millions of people chanting for sainthood or waiting in line for hours to view his body. Not too many people look up to those world leaders with awe or would quake in their boots in their presence. Even the next pope won't get that, mainly because it would take a while to get used to the new one (especially for anyone who has never known any other pope). The world seems so empty now with Pope John Paul II.
melon said:If this new guy is a small minded bigot, he won't have the comfort of nearly 30 years of a reign and North American Catholics, quite likely, will turn into European Catholics, who are pretty much all lapsed.
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Several members of an advocacy group for victims of priest sexual abuse were flying to Rome Sunday to protest Cardinal Bernard Law's celebration of a Mass honoring the late Pope John Paul II, the organization's founder said Saturday night.
Law, former archbishop of Boston, is to say Mass Monday at St. Peter's Basilica.
Law is archpriest of Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, where he presided on Sunday. Pope John Paul II appointed him to that post after Law was implicated in the sexual abuse scandal in Boston in 2002.