The pope is dead.

[relsoft]

The guy is "cool". I may not agree to some of his stance (Family Planning) but he's done a lot to this world. He goes out of his way to reah other religions. I sure do hope some other religious leaders do the same now that he's dead especially the next pope.

I'm sure he's in heaven right now. :*)

xteraco; He is a man, it's just he's a darn cool man.

[Rattrapmax6]

He was the rock star of preist

Or something like that ^_^, the Rock star of something I know...

[aetherfox]

Rattrap: Thanks

AFAIK, you mean Paul Jennings, the novelist.

I think the quote was "He was a rock star of a priest."

Obviously I can be wrong.

Ado: I agree with that 100%, pretty much exactly what I wrote in my article.

Rel: DAMN straight

[Rattrapmax6]

Aye, no, Peter Jennings, the "ABC" ancor for "World New Tonight", the quote box code put "wrote", but he really spoke it.. :wink:

[thegrogen]

the pope is just a man, in my religion we dont worship men.. jesus, he was just a man as well, we dont worship him either, we love him, and understand what he did, and how it effects us.... but we only worship god... so the pope's being dead is treated just like another person being dead.. maybe at most its like a celeberty being dead imho

I agree, but I'm an agnostic, so that's natural. :lol:

[aetherfox]

Then I'm confusing the two...I was sure that Paul Jennings made that quote.

but like I said...

[na_th_an]

As I've posted a lot of times ,I didn't like his policies at all. He's managed to take the Church appart from the people again. What John XXIII made in Council Vaticane II to make a more popular, evolved, progresist Church went to drain as soon as Carol Vojtila became pope.

My fave candidate is the guy from Honduras. He has wide views, he's progresist and liberal, a bit socialist even. He has interesting ideas about familiar planification and homosexuality.

The other contenders are ultraconservers. I FEAR those people. Well, except this guy from Africa (can't remember which country) which looks trustable and has interesting ideas and policies as well, but I seriously doubt that he's gonna be elected 'cause he's African (same with the guy from Honduras: his biggest handicap to sort is that he's Latin-American).

The pope is in charge of 1,200 millions of people all over the world, so I'm pretty concerned about the sucession.

The name used by the new pope will give us a great clue about the policy: If it is Pio XIII we'll have an uptight, ultraconserver-almost-fascist pope. If it is John XXIV we'll have a progresist pope. If it is John Paul III guess what.

The most probable thing is that we get a short, transitional pope.

After all, pope #110 has died, we only have two popes left until the end of the world :lol:

[aetherfox]

As I understand it, John Paul II elected some 90% of the current cardinals, so chances are, they are all going to be close to his vein of thinking.

Speculation, obviously.

I also didn't agree with most of his policies...he was the cause of great unrest in the Church itself, with his unorthodoxy...

But as a humanitarian, you can't doubt what he did for the world.

[na_th_an]

What he did for the world... Maybe you mean the spreadth of AIDS due to his forbiding of using condoms...

Yeah, go to Africa. If the missioners (or whatever it is spelled ) tell the poor people "if you use a condom you'll go to hell!"... guess what they do.

Wonder how many millions of people he has killed indirectly with his stupid policy? Now someone tell me when did Jesus Christ tell about all this shit. I wish that the Church began being Christian ... I think that it's about time.

[relsoft]

Well, he was the pope when the Catholic Church admitted that the earth revolves around the sun.