Pope Benedict XVI

[Stillinlove]

You translated it really good tia =)

[Hada]

not really... that´s why I´m here.. trying to comunicate
but I feel I don´t find words to say all I have to say about things

[Kiechi]

Nomas----He's described as an intellectual who speaks 10 languages and a hardcore traditionalist. Whilst I don't agree with the Catholics, at least he will be a STRONG leader, he won't waver. Unlike the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury who tends to waffle about :-(

He indeed was also an ex- nazi apparently.

[nomas]

He indeed was also an ex- nazi apparently.

He was apparently forced into doing som Nazi service, much in the same way many countries force you to do some military service growing up, but he deserted a couple of times at risk of being shot for doing such a thing.

He completed his seminary after the war.

[Chlorine]

Kiechi/Nomas----Well, even if he does have a chequered past, he has been humbled. See this quote taken from the net:

"EXPERIENCE AFTER NAZI DEFEAT
In three days of marching, we hiked down the empty highway, in a column that gradually became endless... The American soldiers photographed us, the young ones, most of all, in order to take home souvenirs of the defeated army and its desolate personnel."
Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977


I also found this recent quote. Brilliant eh? I think it forces one to choose a side.

"ON RELATIVISM
Having a clear faith based on the creed of the Church is often labelled today as fundamentalism. Relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, looks like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards... We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires."
Homily in St Peter's Square before the conclave, April 2005

[Marvelous]

Polish Pope was better ;P

[Illusional]

one more thing that i have to add. alright so when you become pope, you have to change your name right? so think about this then, when you die, you will only be remembered by a name that wasn't given to you.

raverboy

[Marvelous]

I remeber that Pope Jan Paweł II
is Karol Wojtyła

[Chlorine]

Marvelous----John Paul II had a kinder face. A reflection of his heart?

[nomas]

Marvelous----John Paul II had a kinder face. A reflection of his heart?

If this was the case, Popes should consider the advantages of modern day cosmetic surgery for kinder looking faces, ha ha..

[Chlorine]

Nomas---yeah and the plastic surgeon would probably botch up the job because he's never constructed 'kind' before :-D

Now that's something to reflect upon.