Zone1 what popes can you remember from your childhood?

[Zebra]

i can remember Pius 12

 

[Moonglow]

None

 

[martybegan]

i can remember Pius 12

John Paul II was the pope for most of my life.

Still the standard I measure and will measure any other popes to.

 

[Zebra]

None

Pope None the second or the first?

 

[Moonglow]

Pope None the second or the first?

Third

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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I was unaware of any of them until I met my husband -- his Catholic parents loved JP2.

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[Donald H]

None

How about that Pope whose nose looked exactly like the ass end of the Christmas turkey in the 50's?

 

[Meister]

Popes and the religion never was on my radar.

 

[rightwinger]

I remember Pope Paul making major changes in the 60s

No more Latin Mass, meatless Fridays, women wearing veils

 

[Eman623]

I remember the election of Pope John Paul I and then doing it all over again a month later for John Paul II.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

How about that Pope whose nose looked exactly like the ass end of the Christmas turkey in the 50's?

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Pope John XXIII?

 

[martybegan]

I remember Pope Paul making major changes in the 60s

No more Latin Mass, meatless Fridays, women wearing veils

The Latin mass is making a comeback.

People understood wrong about the priest not facing the congregation. It was less ignoring the people and more about leading the worship.

Everyone facing towards the altar.

 

[Harry Dresden]

when i was a little kid the brothers at catechism told us the pope is the only person on the planet who communicates directly with god....a few years later i find out he puts his pants on like the rest of us...he is just the leader of a wealthy cult...

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The Latin mass is making a comeback.

People understood wrong about the priest not facing the congregation. It was less ignoring the people and more about leading the worship.

Everyone facing towards the altar.

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Facing God.

After being a Catholic for a year, I'm finally learning all the responses, but I didn't miss them in the Latin Mass.


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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When I was growing up, we attended a Baptist Church, so Catholics were considered a cult. It just was what it was.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Almost none, if any. They, and Catholicism, had to do with our family and clan. Outside of the circle is all. We knew there were such things as Catholics and priests in robes but OK that was it.

 

[Zebra]

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Pope John XXIII?

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he was a good pope!

 

[Zebra]

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I was unaware of any of them until I met my husband -- his Catholic parents loved JP2.

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so you know those who came after him.... Benedict and Francis.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

so you know those who came after him.... Benedict and Francis.

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Was not aware of them until I decided to pursue conversion, and then I had to form opinions based on what the Catholics I met had to say, while I learned how to make my own opinions. My first Catholic friend was very much about the Traditional Latin Mass and led me in that direction. When Francis was unable to speak to me in the one language in which I'm fluent. it became hard to trust his translators. Too many nuances.


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[Zebra]

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Was not aware of them until I decided to pursue conversion, and then I had to form opinions based on what the Catholics I met had to say, while I learned how to make my own opinions. My first Catholic friend was very much about the Traditional Latin Mass and led me in that direction. When Francis was unable to speak to me in the one language in which I'm fluent. it became hard to trust his translators. Too many nuances.


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i was very disappointed when Francis ended that splendid tradition to address the people in many languages when he gave the blessing Urbi et Orbi!