God wants pope to stay

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/16/pope.anniversary/index.html

VATICAN CITY -- Marking 25 years as pontiff, Pope John Paul II told followers that God was asking him to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church despite his frail health.

"He (God), while knowing my human fragility, encourages me to respond with faith ... and he invites me to assume the responsibilities that he himself has entrusted to me," the 83-year-old pope said in a homily before tens of thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square Thursday night.

The pope, who suffers from Parkinson's disease and is unable to walk without assistance, delivered the homily during Mass at the Vatican.
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Possibilities:

1) God wants to toy with him some more before ending his suffering.

2) God knows his health is frail, but doesn't want someone more vigorous in there who will actually do things.

3) The Cubs lost. There is no god.
 
God spoke to the Pope?

What ever happened to the biblical god who would talk to people all the time, usually in front of others, and quite loudly it seems...

The Pope is just "special"...

(So when will Pat Robertson get jealous and claim god was speaking to him also...)
 
Yahweh said:
God spoke to the Pope?

What ever happened to the biblical god who would talk to people all the time, usually in front of others, and quite loudly it seems...

The Pope is just "special"...

(So when will Pat Robertson get jealous and claim god was speaking to him also...)
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You may be too young to know about the episode where God told Oral Roberts that he would call Oral home, unless contributors came up with a certain sum of money.

http://religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.edu/pubs/elmer.html

The stormy month of March 1987 was a watershed in the history of religious broadcasting. It began when the press discovered that Oral Roberts was claiming to be held hostage by God Almighty. If Oral didn't raise $8 million in "ransom money" by the end of the month, God would

surely call him home. The press descended upon Tulsa, Oklahoma for the bizarre countdown to April Fools Day, a donnybrook of extraordinary proportions. Would Oral emerge triumphant, cash in hand, from his Prayer Tower on the campus of Oral Roberts University? Or would he be snatched home by his Heavenly Father?
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With attention focused on the sordid details of the live soap opera unfolding at Heritage USA, Oral Roberts' give-or-I-die fund raising shenanigans might have been completely overlooked had it not been for his shameless acceptance of a $1.3 check from a Florida racetrack owner. The donor said he thought Oral ought to check in with a psychiatrist. But neither the putdown nor the thought that this might be Satan's money bothered Roberts in the slightest.
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I think the current Pope is a perfect vehicle for delivering God's intentions to humanity. Listening to the Pope speak nowadays, he makes as much sense as any other Catholic "communication device" (Marian apparitions, burning bushes, rusting traffic signs in the shape of Jesus' face).
 
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