"Janet B" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:35:28 -0000, "Ophelia"
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>>"Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On 12/21/2014 6:54 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>>>> I was raised Methodist but our church required us to study different
>>>>>> religions and even visit other churches and temples. We studied
>>>>>> religion in school as well.
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>>>>> That was frowned upon by our Catholic school nuns.
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>>>> Gosh yes!
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>>> Not where we were in the US. I imagine it makes a difference what parish
>>> or school you attended.
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>>Or country and year I suppose. I suspect things changed a lot in more
>>recent years. I heard yesterday that our current Pope is giving a lot of
>>grief to leaders in the church that they are not pious enough
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> I like this Pope! He's a regular person who has associated with real
> people. (I am not Catholic) I imagine he has caused a bit of a
> flutter within the walls of the Vatican.

A flutter?????? He is like a bomb blast!!! He is (I believe) the first
Jesuit Pope and an outsider!

"Bergoglio was elected in large part because he was a Vatican outsider. This
gave the cardinals hope that he could successfully reform the curia, the
Catholic Church's ineffective-and in some cases criminally
corrupt-bureaucracy in Rome."

Pope Francis even refuses to live in his grand palace! He wants all the
Cardinals etc to follow suit and live simply <g> They are not too happy!!!
Anyway, he is much more. Read he

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/...p-francis.html

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