John Paul II has died.
默哀。
今天早上打开电视，所有的电视台都在现场直播从梵蒂冈现场传来的消息。
虽然我不是天主教徒，但是约翰鲍尔二世为世界和平所作出的贡献值得被人尊敬。
在网络上中国媒介对他的过世几乎没有任何报道。当然，这是可以理解的。
只是可惜，这么多中国人没有机会去了解这样一个伟人。
默哀十分钟
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II, who helped topple communism in Europe and left a deeply c##被过滤##ervative s##被过滤##p on the church that he led for 26 years, died Saturday night in his Vatican apartment, ending a long public struggle against debilitating illness. He was 84.
"We all feel like orphans this evening," Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri told the crowd of 70,000 that gathered in St. Peter's Square below the pope's still-lighted apartment windows.
A Mass was scheduled for St. Peter's Square for 10:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. EDT) Sunday. The pope's body was expected to be taken to St. Peter's Basilica no earlier than Monday afternoon, the Vatican said.
It said the College of Cardinals — the red-robed "princes" of the Roman Catholic Church — would meet at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. EDT) Monday. They were expected to set a funeral date, which the Vatican said probably would be between Wednesday and Friday.
The statement did not give a precise cause of death.
Bells pealed in mourning after the Vatican said the pope died at 9:37 p.m. (2:37 p.m. EST). The assembled flock fell into a stunned silence before some people broke out in applause — an Italian tradition in which mourners often clap for important figures. Others wept.
John Paul's passing set in motion centuries of tradition that mark the death of the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, whom he led into the faith's third millennium.
The Vatican chamberlain formally verified the death and destroyed the symbols of the pope's authority: his fisherman's ring and dies used to make lead seals for apostolic letters.
The Vatican did not say if the chamberlain followed the ancient practice of verification by calling the pope's name three times and tapping his forehead three times with a silver hammer.
John Paul's funeral will be held within four to six days. The Vatican has declined to say whether he left instructi##被过滤## for his funeral or burial. Most popes in recent centuries have asked to be buried in the crypts below St. Peter's Basilica, but some have suggested the first Polish-born pope might have chosen to be laid to rest in his native country.
As John Paul's death neared, members of the College of Cardinals were already headed toward the Vatican to prepare for the secret duty of locking themselves in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Tradition calls for the process to begin within 20 days of death.
Among possible successors are German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — one of the pope's closest aides and the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog. Others mentioned include Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Vatican-based Nigerian, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Austria and Cardinal Dionigi Tet##被过滤##anzi of Italy.
Karol Joseph Wojtyla was a robust 58 when the last papal conclave stunned the world and elected the cardinal from Krakow, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
In his later years, John Paul — the most-traveled pope in history — was the picture of frailty. In addition to Parkinson's, he survived a 1981 assassination attempt, when a Turkish gunman shot him in the abdomen, and had hip and knee ailments. His anguished struggle with failing health became a symbol of aging and, in the end, death with dignity.
Outside the Vatican, the crowd of faithful recited the rosary. A seminarian slowly waved a large red and white Polish flag draped with a black band of mourning for the Polish-born pontiff.
Prela
今天我看了凤凰台
凤凰台只是介绍了点点
是今天凌晨去世的
20天内会选出一个新的教皇
是是非非
假假真真
恩恩怨怨
逝者已逝
无需多提
西斯廷小教堂倒是一个好地方
英语看不懂
为死人默哀下
希望他投个好人家
是不够认识这个教皇
不过,能做的也只有默哀一下了
呵呵
对的
对这个教皇不了解的说
默哀
不认识不熟悉
我关注国内宗教
佛教：）
嘿嘿道教也不错
研究别人的宗教历史还不如看自己的
嘿嘿神啊怪啊 来的比他们还丰富
一部西游记 就够精彩的了
无所谓信仰
是对中国宗教的那种文化的的爱好罢了
我比较喜欢 嘿嘿
还有很多我以前看过 东游记要看书 电视的不完整
东游记还有书啊？
我只看过电视！
书比电视好看N多了
强烈推荐呵呵
哥哥
给我推荐电影看吧
我无聊
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