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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-26-10 07:59 PM
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Pope John Paul II used Belt to Whip Himself
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and slept on the floor as acts of penitence and to bring him closer to Christian perfection, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case.

The book "Why He's a Saint" also includes previously unpublished speeches and documents written by John Paul, including one 1989 signed memo in which he said he would resign if he became incapacitated.










http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35079187/ns/world_news-euro...

look, I respect whatever people believe in, but this is one reason I got out of catholicism..self hatred.
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  -Pope John Paul II used Belt to Whip Himself Mari333  Jan-26-10 07:59 PM   #0 
  - I don't get it. What's the point?  Zoeisright   Jan-26-10 08:03 PM   #1 
  - Actually there is a biological reason people do this  Tailormyst   Jan-26-10 08:05 PM   #4 
  - I'm in continous low-grade pain and I don't feel very euphoric.  Maru Kitteh   Jan-26-10 08:14 PM   #13 
  - Heh, different sort of pain.  Tailormyst   Jan-27-10 08:15 AM   #23 
  - Self-flagellation = Catholic Peyote. nt  anonymous171   Jan-26-10 08:15 PM   #14 
     - Something like that  Tailormyst   Jan-27-10 08:16 AM   #25 
  - I dont know. I was raised old Catholic, and we were told the body was evil  Mari333   Jan-26-10 08:06 PM   #6 
     - As a Catholic, I was never told "the body was evil".  WinkyDink   Jan-27-10 08:41 AM   #29 
  - I have been known to take off my belt and whip myself  rufus dog   Jan-26-10 08:04 PM   #2 
  - That and the , surround yourself in opulence while everyone else lives in squalor.  Arctic Dave   Jan-26-10 08:04 PM   #3 
  - Yup. Anyone living in a spread like that - I'm a bit skeptical about their commitment to the poor  Maru Kitteh   Jan-26-10 08:21 PM   #17 
  - How Muslim of him!  Xipe Totec   Jan-26-10 08:05 PM   #5 
  - ewww. They had scenes of self beating in that Tom Hanks movie "Da Vinci Code" I think  Liberal_in_LA   Jan-26-10 08:06 PM   #7 
  - Yeah- as I was reading this thread I was remembering that scene of the dude all strapped up with...  Poll_Blind   Jan-26-10 08:08 PM   #9 
  - freaked me out. Seeing it is different than reading out it. OMG.  Liberal_in_LA   Jan-26-10 08:10 PM   #10 
  - The belt was a Cilice  blogslut   Jan-26-10 08:33 PM   #21 
  - Opus Dei  OneGrassRoot   Jan-26-10 08:12 PM   #11 
     - yep  Liberal_in_LA   Jan-26-10 08:13 PM   #12 
  - Meh, he was better than the Prada Pope we have now.  anonymous171   Jan-26-10 08:06 PM   #8 
  - The medieval practice of "Mortification" has followers among Opus Dei.  John1956PA   Jan-26-10 08:15 PM   #15 
  - Óscar Romero too (pinko Catholic here) nt  MisterP   Jan-26-10 08:27 PM   #18 
     - I recall Bishop Romero's 1980 killing, which was dramatized in the great 1986 movie "Salvador."  John1956PA   Jan-27-10 08:02 AM   #22 
  - Catholic leaders can't beat themselves enough. If their hell exists they should rot in it.  Walk away   Jan-26-10 08:17 PM   #16 
  - Pies Iesu Domine...  jmowreader   Jan-26-10 08:27 PM   #19 
  - I'll volunteer to whip Ratzenberger with a belt  Canuckistanian   Jan-26-10 08:29 PM   #20 
  - More evidence that he was nuts, too, just more friendly than most Popes.  TexasObserver   Jan-27-10 08:16 AM   #24 
  - Opus Dei  Joanne98   Jan-27-10 08:20 AM   #26 
  - "I'm a nasty pope, I'm a nasty pope!"  leeroysphitz   Jan-27-10 08:20 AM   #27 
  - why do it to yourself when you can pay someone to do it?  Blue_Tires   Jan-27-10 08:27 AM   #28 
  - Maybe the pain temporarily eases the conscience  Politicub   Jan-29-10 06:44 AM   #30 
  - I think this part of the Pope's attempt to introduce Old-Time Catholicism  cap   Jan-29-10 07:54 AM   #31 
  - Bad Pope! Bad!....  Libertas1776   Jan-29-10 07:56 AM   #32 
  - I really don't care. If he wanted to do this it's no skin off my nose.  WI_DEM   Jan-29-10 08:43 AM   #33 
 

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