Agozer Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Why is the new Pope wearing a black cloak and his face looking all twisted!! That's because of the PR machinery. The pope is an epitome of power; what better way to convey that power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prican25 Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 well i can uderstand that the man was the closest with john paul but they should've chossen someone a lot more younger cuz this guy is 78 and paul died at 85 john paul was chossen on october of 1978 so at least he got to be pope for 27 years beginning at the age of 58. funny enough, i was born on october in 1978 heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 well i can uderstand that the man was the closest with john paul but they should've chossen someone a lot more younger cuz this guy is 78 and paul died at 85 john paul was chossen on october of 1978 so at least he got to be pope for 27 years beginning at the age of 58. funny enough, i was born on october in 1978 heh<{POST_SNAPBACK}>They purposely chose a pope who would have a short papacy. I remember hearing that on CNN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rag Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 heard that too... wonder if he knows about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 A black Pope?HA! Thats about as likely to happen as meeting a straight one, or a straight priest for that matter.You know damn well priests aren't straight, they like the same thing as Michael Jackson.......LITTLE BOYS!OMFG, MJ is qualified to be a priest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rag Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 ! The first moonwalking pope! He will ask god for a nose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 pichures<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought he looked evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diso Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Congrats to our Beloved Holiness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryuken Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 damn nazi, WWIII is near!!! anyway i don't trust this new pope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 For the people who called him a nazi without doing any research...Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927, in Marktl Am Inn, Germany. He was the son of a police officer who came from a traditional family of farmers in Lower Bavaria, according to his Vatican biography. Bavaria remains a heavily Catholic region of Germany. He spent his adolescent years in Traunstein, near the Austrian border, when the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler controlled Germany. In his memoirs, Ratzinger wrote that school officials enrolled him in the Hitler Youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941. Membership was compulsory and the officials enrolled his entire class, acting on orders from the Nazi regime, Allen said. Ratzinger said he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood. According to Allen, his family was quietly strongly anti-Nazi, and his father took a series of less significant jobs to stay away from what was happening in Nazi Germany. During World War II, Ratzinger was drafted into army in 1943, serving in an anti-aircraft unit that tracked Allied bombing raids. He deserted in the waning months of the war in 1945 and returned to Traunstein, where he was taken prisoner by U.S. troops. In June 1945, he was released from a POW camp and returned home, this time hitching a ride on a milk truck. From 1946 to 1951, he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Munich and at another school in Freising. He was ordained a priest in 1951. In 1953, he received his doctorate in theology. His doctoral thesis was entitled, "The People and House of God in St. Augustine's doctrine of the Church." Four years later, he was qualified as a university teacher and taught dogma and fundamental theology at four different German universities. In 1962, at age 35, he was a consultant during Vatican II to Cardinal Frings, a reformer who was the archbishop of Cologne, Germany. Allen said that as a young priest Ratzinger was on the progressive side of theological debates, but began to shift right after the student revolutions of 1968. In 1969, he was named professor of dogmatic theology and of the history of dogma at the University of Regensburg, where he was also named vice president.I am not saying this is a good or bad pope, but do your research instead of following by one person's reply. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19...file/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.S.D Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 Good or bad, it is all in the past.We should look into the future instead of re-tracking backRe-tracking back is only to learn from past mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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