Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Didn't post much about this until it was all said & done:
Don't weep for meWhile I'm not Catholic, let alone moderately religious, the Pope's passing is indeed the end of a legend.
POPE JOHN PAUL II died peacefully last night in his Apostolic apartment above St Peter's Square, ending a period of public suffering that spoke of the sanctity of life and the dignity of death.
In a ritual that has not been altered for centuries, bells tolled mournfully in the Vatican to mark the demise of the 84-year-old pontiff. They were soon being echoed by bells all over Rome.
The death, at 9.37pm local time, was confirmed by the Spanish cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the papal chamberlain, and announced within minutes by Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Pope's official spokesman, who distributed the news to journalists via e-mail.
A formal announcement that followed from Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the Vatican's undersecretary of state, was heard in silence by 70,000 in the square. "Our Holy Father, John Paul, has returned to the house of the Father," he said. "We all feel like orphans this evening."
Some of the crowd then broke into applause for the life of the Pope; others sobbed uncontrollably at his passing.
Rest in Peace Your Holiness. Kick ass & take names up beyond the pearly gates.....
Cool "factoid" that I heard about the Pope:
He holds the record for being "most seen" in
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Cool "factoid" that I heard about the Pope:
He holds the record for being "most seen" in person of anybody in history. 26 years of Popemobiles and crowds of hundreds of thousands adds up to a lot of Pope-peeping.
This is Irish-Catholic country over here in Massachusetts. One of my best friends received communion from Il Papa when came to town in the 1980s. He claims that it was a spiritual highlight of his life.
Very cool, if you ask me.
|| Posted by The Liberal Avenger, April 4, 2005 01:08 AM ||