Pope of Rome to Step Down

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

This cracks me up - I have attended an Anglican church before and I know exactly what you speak of! Us lame RC's are just now catching up.

To clarify, Anglican use IS RC - actually, it's now the Anglican Ordinariate.

http://www.themiscellany.org/index.p...riate-answered

So we are as RC as any other Roman Catholics - and I wouldn't touch the "lame" designation with 10 foot pole!

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

To clarify, Anglican use IS RC - actually, it's now the Anglican Ordinariate.

http://www.themiscellany.org/index.p...riate-answered

So we are as RC as any other Roman Catholics - and I wouldn't touch the "lame" designation with 10 foot pole!

As soon as I hit "submit" I knew I was misspeaking...didn't mean to imply that Anglican use/parishioner =/= RC! I absolutely know better. Then I had to run to pick up a child at the school bus & there was no time to edit!

(ps - I just learned how to spell - it's telling me I misspelled "parishoner". Had no idea there was a 2nd "i"...had to go to Dictionary.com to figure out the right spelling!) The more you know...

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by shirley1929

As soon as I hit "submit" I knew I was misspeaking...didn't mean to imply that Anglican use/parishioner =/= RC! I absolutely know better. Then I had to run to pick up a child at the school bus & there was no time to edit!

(ps - I just learned how to spell - it's telling me I misspelled "parishoner". Had no idea there was a 2nd "i"...had to go to Dictionary.com to figure out the right spelling!) The more you know...

It's all good - there are many who don't quite understand the whole Anglican Ordinariate thing and since I'm married to an Anglican (Not Anglican Ordinariate or RC at all) priest it gets extra-special confusing for those who talk to me!

[aephi alum]

This past Sunday, I went to Mass for the first time in years. (I was raised Catholic and converted to Judaism 14 years ago.) This was at my parents' parish, where I had attended Mass every weekend as a child. To make a very long story very short, my mother is very ill, so my husband and I were visiting her (in hospital) and my father, and we had to drive him to church.

When the wording changes were made, there were cards placed at every pew with the changes. Those cards are still there, even though the new wording is stated in the missalette.

Time was that I could get through a Mass without the missalette. Frell - I was a lector! Now it seems like everything has changed - even the Eucharistic prayer is worded differently. I was sitting there (as a non-Catholic, I sit rather than kneel during the Eucharistic prayer) thinking, "Where are the words I grew up with?"

Anyway, as to the Pope, if he feels he's not up to leading a Church consisting of over a million people, it's probably for the best that he step down and serve in whatever capacity he can serve. Hopefully a new Pope can be selected and in place in time for Easter.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Anyway, as to the Pope, if he feels he's not up to leading a Church consisting of over a million people, it's probably for the best that he step down and serve in whatever capacity he can serve. Hopefully a new Pope can be selected and in place in time for Easter.

B for billion. 1.1 billion in the Church. And from your lips to God's ears, aephi alum - let's hope it's by Easter.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

B for billion. 1.1 billion in the Church. And from your lips to God's ears, aephi alum - let's hope it's by Easter.

I stand corrected as to the size of the Church.