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Developing | Pope Francis’ funeral: ceremony begins as Vatican welcomes world leaders, worshippers https://www.inbella.com/1018668/developing-pope-francis-funeral-ceremony-begins-as-vatican-welcomes-world-leaders-worshippers/ #ARGENTINA #CardinalGiovanniBattistaRe #ClimateChange #funeral #Germany #Italy #JohnPaulII #mass #NewZealand #PopeFrancis #RomanCatholicChurch #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #RoyalGossip #Royals #RoyalsGossip #StPeter'sSquare #St.MaryMajor #TRUMP #Ukraine #Vatican
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“He kept the same position that [Pope] John Paul II had when the wall [separating Jerusalem and Bethlehem] started to be built, where he said the Holy Land needed bridges and not walls. That was repeated by Pope Francis, who stood heavily for the right of the Palestinian people for self-determination.”
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Your humble scribe (photo 1), Isaac (photo 2), and Pat (photo 3) in the photo-op "Selfie with a Saint" spot at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, in Washington, DC. 20170211
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« Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but having the right to do what we ought. »
― John Paul II
· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/726313918641897472/freedom-consists-not-in-doing-what-we-like-but
TumblrPoligraf · The Artistic ImpulseFreedom consists not in doing what we like, but having the right to do what we ought.
— John Paul II
The Vatican Film List
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Decent FilmsThe Vatican Film List | Decent Films - SDG ReviewsThe pope’s remarks were both forward looking, speaking to the potential of cinema to become “a more and more positive factor in the development of individuals and a stimulus for the conscience of society as a whole,” and also historically minded, speaking positively of the praiseworthy contributions of “many worthwhile productions during the first hundred years of [the cinema’s] existence.”
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"including getting booed off-stage at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert, the most disgraceful performance by a Madison Square Garden crowd since the German American Bund meeting in 1939."
"[W]hen Sinead tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in protest of the Church's massive conspiracy to obstruct justice on the subject of child sexual abuse, she put herself out there before almost anyone else, and she paid an awful price,"
~ Charles Pierce
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44654287/sinead-oconnor-dead-54-tribute/
EsquireSinead O'Connor Put Herself Out There Before Almost Anyone Else
Pope Francis spoke out against insinuations
In regards to the case of dear young Emanuela
He said the accusations
Against Saint John Paul II
Are false and offensive, so let us be clear
But where is little Emanuela?
The question still remains after forty years
ReutersPope Francis calls 'insinuations' against John Paul II unfoundedPope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II.
Pope John Paul II and pedophile priests becomes Poland’s a top political issue. The country’s ruling party wants to convert reports that the pontiff turned a blind eye toward child abuse into electoral rocket fuel.
Although the canonized Polish pontiff has been dead since 2005, he’s become the hottest subject in Poland following an explosive documentary alleging that he protected priests accused of sexually molesting children.
https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-politics-pope-john-paul-ii-election/
POLITICOPope John Paul II and pedophile priests becomes Poland’s top political issue
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@johnwlast Yes. It's very odd that more people don't make note of that. ALSO Ratzinger's political rise in the church was largely based on his status as a theologian & his shaping of the theological track during #JohnPaulII 's pontificate was his most important legacy (for better and worse)