Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of PostsFor at least a couple more weeks, we're all sedevacantists. As of this afternoon, the chair of Peter really is vacant.- John of "The Inn at the End of the World"
[The Pope's] magnificent encyclicals are beautiful minglings of heart and head knowledge, heart and head love. As a result they are not always satisfying to those who demand a rigorous logic in their approach to theology--there is entirely too much reliance upon metaphor and analogy for their comfort. Further, they tend to be disconcerting to those who want to love without thinking about it; the Pope demands a certain intellectual rigor to be understood. His actions, many of them criticized during his reign show the same dichotomy. There are a great many who criticized the liturgy for the canonization of St. Juan Diego because so many native dancers and rituals were incorporated into the Mass. And yet, it is the heart that became briefly ascendant there with the consent of the head acknowledging the individual differences in cultures. - Steven Riddle of Flos Carmeli
He took office when I was about eight, and to me he was always just there, like the Empire State Building. - Camassia, on the pope
Americans make up something like 6 percent of the Roman Catholics on the planet, so what our polls say is not all that significant. If the Church reacts to those statistics at all (and I wish the Church would), it will be to explain to the afore-mentioned Episcopalians that they are Episcopalians. Seriously. -Karen Hall of "Some Have Hats"
With our tradition in Chicago of dead people voting, one wag said that the entire Communion of Saints would be voting in the next Papal election. - commenter on Amy's blog
When I was a Protestant, John Paul II helped to give me a hunger for Catholicism. As a Lutheran (WELS) Sunday School teacher, I once believed that the pope was the Antichrist. But then I saw John Paul II on television during his visit to Denver, heard him give a beautiful Christian homily, and concluded that if the pope was really the Antichrist, he wasn't a very good one. - Jeff Culbreath of Hallowed Ground
Girl Disappointed in Love
--Karol Wotyla, Bishop of Krakow
With mercury we measure pain
as we measure the heat of bodies and air;
but this is not how to discover our limits--
you think you are the center of things.
If you could only grasp that you are not:
the center is He,
and He, too, finds no love---
why don't you see?
The human heart--what is it for?
Cosmic temperature. Heart. Mercury.
- via Steven Riddle
Much of the coverage we are seeing on the cable networks has been wonderful, and much of it is very good, still. But we are seeing, now, little things, like Chris Matthews screaming at a young priest that celibacy is (basically) stupid (how come Buddhists never have to deal with that crap? Everyone calls them enlightened! ). - the Anchoress
What a perfect group of people for me to be with when Mama T got the sad call that the pope had died. We were in a restaurant but it was as if we were in a soundproof bubble. Nothing else existed except the four of us and our shared, mingled sadness and joy. Tears flowed and we clasped hands and shared prayer together for our pope and our church. What an odd "coincidence" for us to be together to share that moment ... as if I believed in coincidence. In fact, my husband has said three times that he still can't believe how odd it was that I was with those St. Blog's parishioners at that time (and he doesn't repeat himself like that). - Julie of Happy Catholic
Just saw Chris Matthews on MSBNC - bawling again. Is there a reporter on television who cries as much as Chris? He's such a sloppy, sentimental Irishman! :-) I can say that, being a sloppy, sentimental Irish woman! - the blogger at Anchoress
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