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The Pope has no right to marry.

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Pope John Paul II was a great believer in the United Nations.

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Devout after a fashion, they follow their conscience or their convenience their lives a more or less amiable standoff between doctrinal prohibitions and vernacular practice. As the comedian Bob Newhart observed, The pope leaves us alone we leave the pope alone.

Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.

In fact, of course, educated theologians from the Pope down are firm in their support of evolution.

Mr. Motoc (Romania) Before all else, allow me, on behalf of Romania, to join in the expression of heartfelt condolences at the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the first pope ever to have visited a predominantly Orthodox country such as mine.

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I thought that something would come out of it, like Words rule fantastic new old first last Pope because it's by Alexander Pope, but I sort of made a mess out of it, and then I thought I'd repeat it in some way so it was legible.

I've already said that many individual evolutionists, like the Pope, are also religious, but I think they're deluding themselves.

Last week Pope Francis announced a new commission to consider whether women should be made deacons in the Catholic Church.

The Polish born Pope John Paul II crystallized the anti communist threat that Poland now posed to the Soviet Union.

Mr. Rock (Canada) I first want to record Canada's sorrow at the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

In 2003, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. Sylvester by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II.

The chief Jesuit confessor at the papal court used to be called the black pope, owing to his simple black cassock (if not his sinister intent). Now, for the first time, a Jesuit has become pope and has compounded the novelty by assuming the very un Jesuit name of Francis.

Pius XII was a Pope, not a prophet. He did not know about all this and could not reasonably have known.

Perhaps that will change, too. Pope Francis, for example, appears to be leading the Catholic Church in the direction of greater social engagement.

The words the late Pope John Paul II pronounced during his apostolic visit to Chile retain all their relevance the poor cannot wait.

A few hours ago, millions of people gathered in Rome and around the world paid a final tribute to Pope John Paul II.

According to Phelps, Pope Leo XIII advocated a corporatist view in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Pope Pius XI amplified these ideas in his 1931 encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. But, in reading these works, I do not find a clear or persuasive statement of any economic doctrine, except for basic notions of fairness and Christian charity.

Most Roman Catholics participate in this mistreatment, a few by raising chickens, ducks, and turkeys in ways that maximize profit by reducing animal welfare, and the majority by buying the products of factory farms. If Pope Francis can change that, he will, in my view, have done more good than any other pope in recent history.

The years of John Paul II s papacy have not actually been a time in which soft power could achieve a great deal anywhere, so that Stalin s famous question, How many divisions has the Pope?, remained topical. This was all the more relevant to the extent that Pope John Paul II is not enamored with the United States.

Francis predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, began to turn the Church s attention toward the need for environmental sustainability. Francis has taken this process much further.

That fact led to the observation by the late Pope John Paul II that Lebanon is more than a country Lebanon is a message.

For example, as in the construction of the terms fair and equitable treatment and full protection and security in Pope Talbot Inc. v. Canada.

One of the late Pope John Paul II s unfulfilled dreams was to visit Moscow and forge a rapprochement with the Orthodox Church. But, although he was invited to Moscow by Russia s three most recent presidents Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, and Mikhail Gorbachev opposition to the visit by Orthodox Patriarch Alexi prevented the Pope from making the journey before he died.

ROME Once again, the reputation of Pope Pius XII is under scrutiny and attack. Indeed, so searching are the questions and so inflamed are discussions about the Roman Catholic Church s pontiff during World War II that the current pope, Benedict XVI, recently announced that he may postpone Pius s beatification until the Vatican s archives for the war years are opened and examined.

It is recommended that the Eleventh Congress observe a minute of silence for the late Pope John Paul II and the late Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

At the 31st meeting, on 4 April 2005, the Commission observed one minute of silence in connection with the death of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II.

In addition to being a spiritual leader, Pope John Paul II was a prominent figure in the advancement of peace and of understanding among people of different backgrounds.

Pope John Paul II, with his mastery of religious mysticism, philosophical contemplation and poetic and artistic creativity, exerted every effort for the triumph of truth, justice and peace.

I don't know if Pope Benedict watches TEDTalks online, but if you do, I've got news for you Benedict I carry condoms all the time and I never get laid.

But his predecessor Pope Pius XI had already done that, in the Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge ( With Burning Concern ). Pius XI had also condemned Communism, in the Encyclical Divini Redemptoris .

Cardinal Wojtyla s election as Pope therefore had a significance far beyond the confines of the Church. Actually he himself did not like the identification of his church with civil society.

As His Holiness Pope John Paul II underlined, it is based on the cooperation of one person with another not one person against another and on unity prevailing over divisions.

To see this, consider what a market economy is all about. Some, including Pope Francis, would say that it is about greed a system in which everybody cares only about herself.

Pope John Paul arrested this process and even tried to reverse it. For progressive theologians like Hans Küng, he was and is therefore a force of anti modernism, even counter enlightenment.

Mr. Aho Glele (Benin) (spoke in French) First, we would like to express our sincere condolences to the international Catholic community on the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II.

Mr. Tafrov (Bulgaria) (spoke in French) At the outset, I should like to express, on behalf of my delegation, our most sincere condolences to the Mission of the Holy See and the Mission of Poland on the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, one of the most important figures of the twentieth century and the first Slavic pope in the history of the Catholic Church, who was respected immensely in Bulgaria.

Most Catholics pray that this is not the case. Given the positive impact that such a charismatic and forward thinking pope can have on the world, we should all share that hope.