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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2005, 05:30:13 PM »
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As he was Polish, however he spelled it would be how the Poles spelled it.

Ashes to ashes dust to dust, he was made of Polish stuff.  I was being more figurative than literal.
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« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2005, 05:55:55 PM »
I'm not a religious guy but i respected him all the same.  He even played his part in defeating communism.  He could speak what? 8 langauges?  I'm sure he would say his name in which ever langauge was appropriate.

Oh, he was a fan of football too.:)
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« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2005, 01:16:40 AM »
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He was a good man who stood for his principles and guided his church with the tools that God gave him to use.

Rest in peace.


Well said MAvrick well said indeed.
R.I.P John Paul  ll
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« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2005, 04:16:56 AM »
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His name was Karol Wojtyla. His papal name was Ioannes Paulus PP. II

Right, that how he signed his encyclical
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« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2005, 04:21:17 AM »
I wonder if the body will be on public display. I mean since he is such a famous person.
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« Reply #35 on: April 03, 2005, 04:48:45 AM »
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I wonder if the body will be on public display. I mean since he is such a famous person.


It will be ,it's the tradition the body will be displayed 9 days I think.
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« Reply #36 on: April 03, 2005, 09:49:33 AM »
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A great man. He probably had more to do with the eventual death of communism than any other single person.


Even more than Ronnie?


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« Reply #37 on: April 03, 2005, 10:24:07 AM »
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« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2005, 12:51:44 PM »
GScholz, i would compare Pope to Ronnie. He was a amature actor in his youth...
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« Reply #39 on: April 03, 2005, 02:15:35 PM »
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« Reply #40 on: April 04, 2005, 04:37:01 AM »
if you are interested, that's how His beloved Cracow said "see you later" to him:
http://www.gimbla.pl/forum/pokoje/viewtopic.php?t=25158
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« Reply #41 on: April 04, 2005, 05:10:47 AM »
Hmmm, well, he did good things, but he also let bad issues slide.... things that the Catholic Church did that may in the future be labelled atrocities (the buring of kiddie fiddling cases springs to mind).

I'm 50/50 on him being a "great man" because of this - perhaps if he had been in another religion.... but he had a chance to clean his faith up and he missed it.
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« Reply #42 on: April 04, 2005, 10:43:09 AM »
Vulcan,

No leader can be 100% effective on every freaking area of their position. If you want to hold him in contempt for less than perfect effectiveness in everything, that's your problem, not his.

FWIW I hold the American Clergy of the Catholic Church at fault for that particular fiasco far more than a man over 2,000 miles away.

The main way to aleviate that problem is for the clergy involved to realize vows are not "negotiable" nor are they "conditional". Allowing Priests to marry would go a long way to helping as well but it goes against a very fundamentalist belief of the Church.
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« Reply #43 on: April 04, 2005, 11:01:38 AM »
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Vulcan,

No leader can be 100% effective on every freaking area of their position. If you want to hold him in contempt for less than perfect effectiveness in everything, that's your problem, not his.

FWIW I hold the American Clergy of the Catholic Church at fault for that particular fiasco far more than a man over 2,000 miles away.

The main way to aleviate that problem is for the clergy involved to realize vows are not "negotiable" nor are they "conditional". Allowing Priests to marry would go a long way to helping as well but it goes against a very fundamentalist belief of the Church.


Not to tarnish this thread, but Mav, that problem isn't a US problem, its a world wide problem.

That notwithstanding, I believe he was a good man.

R.I.P.
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