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the all time favorite for the Pope is:

“I have forgiven jesus” from Morrisey!

Posted by Jay on March 5, 2006 at 9:00 AM (PDT)

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Werewolf,
I appreciate your openness to searching for information.  What you find certainly depends on where you’re looking.  If you want to truly understand the Church, you have to understand it from the inside.

I would recommend St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” Scott and Kimberly Hahn’s “Rome Sweet Home,” “Surprised by Truth” edited by Patrick Madrid, the “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” lives of the saints (there are many collections of short biographies), “Something Beautiful for God” by Malcom Muggeridge (biography of Mother Teresa), or “Pensees” by the great scientist Blaise Pascal.  New Advent is a very informative online encyclopedia.  If you’re really ambitious, the book “Witness to Hope” by George Weigel is excellent.  It’s a long list, but hopefully you can pick even one that appeals to you and check it out.

I don’t know what you’ve been reading, but these kinds of sources will give you much more accurate information about what the Church is really like than could be provided by any source outside the Church.  While I think it is important to get information from a variety of perspectives, in this case from both inside and outside the Church, it’s crucial not to neglect researching the way the Church understands herself and her relationship to God, to the human person, and to the world.

I encourage you to persevere in your search for truth.  I hope you will “eventually” find reality!
Peace

Posted by siena on March 5, 2006 at 9:49 AM (PDT)

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Does every thread with a church figure listed in the title have to turn into a freaking flame war?  This is an iPod site, you idiots.

Posted by Derek on March 5, 2006 at 5:21 PM (PDT)

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LMAO sorry Derek this is what happens when there isn’t much news.

Siena… I assure you I do not only look at one side of something before judging it. I’ve done a great deal of research on all religion and have only been able to determine one thing - it is unhealthy for people to base their lives on. Countless people have died in wars over their silly beliefs. Please don’t act like I must be crazy for not wanting to be a Catholic. I have found reality and it doesn’t involve any kind of church. My music is my life and that’s how it is for me and that’s how I want it for myself.

We should stop discussing religion now before people really start getting angry. LOL

Posted by Werewolf on March 5, 2006 at 6:53 PM (PDT)

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Siena, thanks for the reading list. I, for one, will check it out.

As a lover of Stravinsky, I’m very pleased that His Holiness will have ready access to his music.

Posted by elo on March 5, 2006 at 7:20 PM (PDT)

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What’s wrong with discussing religion?  What better way to promote peace among people with various beliefs than an open and sincere dialogue?  Questions like “What am I doing here?” have been of interest to human beings throughout history.  If an ipod site can provide a forum for interesting discussion, then so be it!  I admire all of you who are engaging in this civil and informative conversation.
As a side note, cheathamcc, I would personally be very amused by a “PopePod” commercial

Posted by siena on March 5, 2006 at 9:32 PM (PDT)

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lol yes i’d like to see a popepod commercial with him dark, and dancing with it.

actually they should’ve given the pope the highest end ipod of them all. the 60 gigger video. after all, he deserves it doesn’t he?

Posted by Nick on March 5, 2006 at 10:12 PM (PDT)

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Well Siena answer is simple - this is an iPod site - not a religion site.

Posted by Werewolf on March 6, 2006 at 7:00 AM (PDT)

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they couldn’t get video ipod, because then it is the devil’s ipod… (there was a post about how a minister said video ipod is evil because it can be loaded with pron.)

Posted by dpid on March 6, 2006 at 2:19 PM (PDT)

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What if somebody gave an iPod to Ariel Sharon or what about to Osama bin Laden?  George W. Bush already got one.

The Queen of England?

Charlie Manson?

Why is this offensive to some people?

Posted by skeeterly on March 6, 2006 at 3:14 PM (PDT)

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The Queen of England, I believe, does have one.

Another track for the Pope’s iPod (iPope?):

Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry.

Posted by Michael on March 6, 2006 at 6:05 PM (PDT)

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One Pimpin’ Pope!!

Posted by Sam Dearing on March 7, 2006 at 11:04 AM (PDT)

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C’mon everyone....lighten up...Whenever you mix pop culture with religious icons, you’re bound to have a few laughs.  Wait until Maher, Stewart, Leno and Letterman pick up on this.......

Posted by dw on March 7, 2006 at 11:20 AM (PDT)

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IT’S A HARD LIFE BEING THE POPE!

You get hold of an iPod and instantly you generate waves of criticism???

Cant we let the old geezer listen to his Mozart in peace?

Posted by Robert on March 7, 2006 at 12:24 PM (PDT)

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PS.  On a side note, the pope now has to figure out how to iPod his PopeMobile, and put an integrated iPod stereo system hookup in his chair.

Posted by Robert on March 7, 2006 at 12:29 PM (PDT)

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The pope’s new 2GB digital audio player already was loaded with a sampling of the radio’s programming in English, Italian and German and musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky,”

As well as compositions from ramstein, and a few from the Glasgow Rangers Supporters Loyalist band, such as “Hijack the Pope Mobile” and “No Pope of Rome”

Posted by shand on October 12, 2007 at 8:23 AM (PDT)

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A few suggestions if I may....

“Jesus Walks” by: Kanye West
“Hail Mary” by: TUpak Shakur

Posted by lbackus on April 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM (PDT)