i saw it now sorry taikara.

Sorry Tai, didn't see it as well... Same for me as for Danny, that guy is really disgraceful...

well, I guess he wont be back for a bit.
so lets honour the dead pope and.. stop flaming
anyone I have offended (apart from cheesegrater) I am deeply sorry.

Yeah, let's just move on from this incident, and get back to what the purpose of the topic was about the pope.

OK, I hereby declare that I will stop this evening's flaming session.

On a lighter note, 2000 posts! Yeah! :Brain: :Brain: :Brain:

From what I understand, the late Pope was an honorable and enlightened man.

However, I'm not Catholic, and I know very little about him...

Does anyone know his background? His life before he came Pope? For me, that would be very interesting to know.

Sebastianos wrote a great news about him just check the main page

you have something on the main page of abandonia

I know that the city he grew up in was officially athiest and had no church so he led a protest and convinced the government to build a cathedral which he became bishop of.

He was the first Slavic pope(Poland), also the first non-Italian pope in the last few hundred years, he was a pope for 26 years, the 3rd longest in history during which he visited 120 different countries...