So the media goes from Terri Schiavo's feeding tube to the Pope's feeding tube, just like that.
Shouldn't W and Tom DeLay be making sure John Paul II is getting all the help he needs to live forever?
After all, I just saw a headline that said he was half responsible for the fall of communism.
"We know what the pope has achieved. Fifty percent of the collapse of communism is his doing,"
(Lech) Walesa told The Associated Press on Friday. "More than one year after he spoke these words, we were able to organize 10 million people for strikes, protests and negotiations.
[Naturally, the other half was Reagan.]
"Earlier we tried, I tried, and we couldn't do it. These are facts. Of course, communism would have fallen, but much later and in a bloody way. He was a gift from the heavens to us."
{Funny, a few weeks ago when George Kennan died, they said it was he who foresaw the inevitable fall of communism based on their messed up system.)
Too bad he lost his MOJO these past few years and people in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan had to do it all by themselves.
He wasn't too hot on liberating people from right- wing regimes it seems. In the eighties, many catholics sought out his help in ending brutal central American death squads, but he was no where to be found.
Jesuits and arch-bishops and nuns were slaughtered in El Salvidor, but it seems John Paul was too busy trying to review Galileo's's heresies. (From 1630.)
You know, that whole earth revolving around the sun controversy.
The Catholics have an answer and are firmly in control of reality.
"...Satan carries on his plans for disorder in the world to bring down the Church and destroy souls. A false science, condemned by Vatican I Council, continues to deceive many Catholics who strive to reconcile this false science with the truths of Faith.
Unfortunately, they are aided and abetted by apostate theologians. But such an unnatural yoking of truth with error cannot hold for long, and Our Lady has promised that at the last, Her Immaculate Heart will triumph. The truth of God, Her Spouse the Holy Spirit, and Her unparalleled Purity are really the same."
Amen to that, crazy person. Bring on the middle ages again, I'm ready.
GALILEO'S HERESY
by Paula Haigh
"Now that the traditional teaching of the Church about Creation and a literal reading of Genesis is being vindicated with the downfall of Darwinism, so also the traditional teaching about the structure of the universe is being admitted in various ways, and Catholics should know about it.
The first of these is included in the extensive scientific work of the French Catholic scholar, Fernand Crombette (d.1970). His works have not yet been translated but some of them have been expounded in English, and all may be obtained from the Cercle Scientifique et Historique[CESHE].(1)
"The Bible does not make mistakes" was the watchword of this gifted Catholic scientist.(2) Secondly, there is the first-rate paper by Solange Hertz (3) entitled Recanting Galileo." [Crazy Galileo!]
Paula goes on to assure us:
"Lastly, there has recently appeared The Earth is Not Moving by Marshall Hall(7). His is a quintessentially popular treatment of this difficult subject, and he must be given much credit for bringing the arcana of modern mathematical physics down to the level of us scientifically illiterate mortals. Whatever may be the shortcomings of Hall's book, it is impossible not to enjoy his literary panache."
In order to prove to the disbelieving dolts that the earth isn't moving, one would need to have some panache.
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