On this day 24 years ago Pope John Paul II visited Romania, the first visit of a Pope in an Orthodox majority country since the Great Schism
On this day 24 years ago Pope John Paul II visited Romania, the first visit of a Pope in an Orthodox majority country since the Great Schism
by u/OsarmaBinLatin in europe
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Hopefully, at a moment in time, all branches of Christianity will be again united.
He’s weirdly not yellow.
Hopefully religion will fade away slowly…
Just think back a couple of centuries. people considered it very important whether you were Catholic or Orthodox. In an Orthodox country, somewhere in the 15th century, you could take a beating for converting from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. or also the Protestants whom they tried to exterminate. and at the same time they all believed in a god, and they could kill you for not worshiping God that way. It’s good that in our time there is no such …………. oh yes 🙁
He visited them to advise how to cover up children abuse
> since the Great Schism
That was like a thousand years ago, wasn’t it? Damn, the Catholic Church sure holds a grudge…
Pedo energy
I always viewed religious leaders like comics fans arguing about which superhero universe is stronger.
Difference of course is that no real wars have ever started over a Marvel vs DC dispute.
He visited Romania or Moldova?
The patriarch stipulated that the pope should only visit Bucharest. Therefore Paul did not visit the Transylvanian or Csángó Land Catholics who make up the almost entire Catholics of Romania.
The ethnically Hungarian Csángó people are an especially touchy subject for the Vatican.
Up until recently the Vatican has been openly tried to assimilate church members to Romanians using various ways in order to have a Romanian Roman Catholic base. Churches would deny service in Hungarian, priests would blackmail families if they let their children to attend Hungarian language classes, priests would try to deceive people about their identities before state censuses. They said they are “Roman” Catholics therefore “Romanians”. Churches’ Hungarian traces were removed and they built upon at least one cemetery.
Imagine if native Americans would have dealt with that sort of erasure of the Vatican well into some months ago.
I just knew all the comments would be “religion bad! Religion bad!”
2 pedos on a stamp
Is pope that difficult to draw? Dear Zeus, have mercy!