yeah but really it would have been a decent thing to do to retire him from
his duties about 10 years ago...my 2c
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17 years ago
Re: [OT] John Paul The Second is dead :(
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- posted
17 years ago
...actually on reflection... I think I had better say that isn't my odd
sense of humour breaking out again... no offence intended folks :o)
- posted
17 years ago
Neil, I'm sure there could be some people who would be offended by your
initial statement. However, I have felt for several years that the humane
thing would have been to let that wonderful man retire with grace and not
suffer in public like he has been. I'm not Catholic, so maybe I don't
understand these things.
jk
jk
- posted
17 years ago
He did not want to retire, he was showing everyone how you should fight to
carry on with as full of a life as long as you can.
- posted
17 years ago
well as you may know sometimes I work in an old folks home so I am actually
kind of glad to see that the elderly and infirm are not discarded and
closeted away from public view as so often they are but imho it would have
been more appropriate to hand on the papal responsibilities to someone with
more vitality a while ago...he still could have had public veneration etc as
for example the Queen Mother had...I am not a Catholic either but I know
from my experience at the home when the time has come for friends,family to
let go of their expectations that the elderly person interact and
participate in life as they have done in the past.... imho it verged on the
somewhat indecent to have him sitting up in the window in his robes giving
blessings with a tube inserted but there you go...I am sorry if that upsets
any one....he was a good man.