Poll: your favorite Pope in the last 110 years!

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I wasn’t aware that I had a lot in common with Pope John Paul 11. It wasn’t until I read his life story that I found out that we had the same interest in art and other interests.

I did a painting for him of Our blessed Mother holding Baby Jesus in her arms and I hand delivered it to him at the Vatican in May 1996. He was very ill on that day with his gal-bladder medical problem. So I met with some priests who happen to be American priests.
It was an exciting moment for me. It was also unbelieveable that I was allowed into the Vatican. They say nobody gets in without a formal invitation. People are super surprised when I tell them my story.

I did get a letter from the Pope stating the painting brought him much joy. He sent me his Apostolic blessing.

When the Pope came to visit Los Angeles, California… a photographer took a photo of his airplane and there was a super large spirit of an Angel guarding the airplane. It was an awsome photo. PEACE, LaLucia
 
1.Pius X
2.Benedict XV (very ignored)
3.Leo XIII
4.Pius XII
5.Pius XI
6.Benedict XVI
7.Paul VI
8.John Paul II
9.John XXIII
 
I voted for Pope Benedict XVI in the poll, since we could only vote for one.

But Pope John Paul II was the Holy Father during exactly half my life, and the one I saw three times when I visited Rome and the Vatican.

I saw Pope Paul VI on my first trip in 1977.

I was little when Pope John XXIII was elected, but I do remember when he died in 1963.

I was too young to remember Pope Pius XII, but I remember watching a biography of him on TV and seeing a blessing with his picture on it on the wall of my maternal grandparents’ home.

I also like Pope St. Pius X, Pope Benedict XV, and Pope Pius XI. I saw all their tombs in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Yet, as a daughter whose mother was born in Germany…I LOVE MY ‘GERMAN SHEPHERD’! :extrahappy: 🙂 😃 I feel a certain pride that he is German, just as the Poles felt in John Paul II.
 
YankeeRC said:
👍 love that

I voted for Pius X but Benedict XVI is the first pope I put up a picture of and he’s holding a big ‘ein mass Bier’
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Thanks, YankeeRC!

I think I’ve seen that picture of Papa Benedict, although it’s from his days as Cardinal Ratzinger.
 
No one can hold a candle to Pope St. Pius X. The man was a prophet. Read Editae Saepe that was published on May 26, 1910.
 
:)i chose Pope Pius X…

i know virtualy nothing about him… i actually know more about Pope Pius XII and started to choose him. He saved many Jews from the Nazis - hundreds of thousands.

i really like him. i wonder why he hasn’t been (far as i know) chosen for possibly canonization?

but in any case, i chose Pius X because he is a canonized saint. And i like what little I’ve read of what he wrote on the Church.

Thanks for the reminder to read more about him
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‘Hope has been the sole companion of my life, the greatest aid in doubts, the strongest assistance in my weakness; hope, but not the hope in men, such as is thought to bring greater happiness and instead brings greater disaster, but hope in Christ, supported by the celestial promise that He will strengthen the weakest of men with a greatness of soul and divine help.’

Pope St. Pius X

I have the greatest respect for Pope St. Pius X. 🙂
 
distracted said:
i actually know more about Pope Pius XII and started to choose him. He saved many Jews from the Nazis - hundreds of thousands.

i really like him. i wonder why he hasn’t been (far as i know) chosen for possibly canonization?
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Pope Benedict declared him venerable last year, on the recommendation of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Progress on the canonization of Pope Pius XII has been slow. He had a good reputation until 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy recast him as a villain. That play, along with cold war anti-Catholic disinformation from the Soviet Union, was enough to make many people believe that the late Pope was pro-Nazi rather than anti-Nazi. Even people who know better than that may still worry that others will be offended or scandalized, if Pius XII is canonized.
 
MikeDunphy said:
Pope Benedict declared him venerable last year, on the recommendation of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Progress on the canonization of Pope Pius XII has been slow. He had a good reputation until 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy recast him as a villain. That play, along with cold war anti-Catholic disinformation from the Soviet Union, was enough to make many people believe that the late Pope was pro-Nazi rather than anti-Nazi. Even people who know better than that may still worry that others will be offended or scandalized, if Pius XII is canonized.
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who cares? if he is a saint, he is a saint.

i wonder if there have been any miracles attributed to him?

I’ve read a lot of reliable info on Pius XII… gives names, dates, etc…

There is a certain element in the world that will slam anything that is Catholic… gets so freaing tiresome…

but then, Jesus said that we woiuld be 'hated by all"

hard thing to get used to but whatchoice do we have? The devil has a lot of followers.
 
I saw that Pius X was the most popular, so I googled some info about him, as I didn’t know much about him. I liked what I read and liked him very much - he got my vote! 👍
 
I also voted for Pius X. I read his biography. He was an awesome Pope.
 
Pope St Pius X’s Pascendi:

The office divinely committed to Us …[is] to guard with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith… rejecting the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called… [O]wing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking “men speaking perverse things” (Acts xx. 30), “vain talkers and seducers” (Tit. i. 10), "erring and driving into error" (2 Tim. iii. 13). Still it must be confessed that the number of the enemies of the cross… has in these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving… to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, if they can, to overthrow utterly Christ’s kingdom itself.
  1. *** … the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church’s open enemies; they lie hid… in her very bosom and heart***, and are the more mischievous, the less conspicuously they appear. We allude… to many who belong to the Catholic laity, nay, and this is far more lamentable, ***to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, feigning a love for the Church… thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, vaunt themselves as reformers… ***; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ…
  2. … Nor indeed will he err in accounting them the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church. For as We have said, they put their designs for her ruin into operation not from without but from within; hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury is the more certain, the more intimate is their knowledge of her. Moreover they lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith…… and since audacity is their chief characteristic, there is no conclusion of any kind from which they shrink or which they do not thrust forward with pertinacity and assurance. *** To this must be added the fact, which indeed is well calculated to deceive souls, that they lead a life of the greatest activity**, of assiduous and ardent application to every branch of learning, and that they possess, as a rule, a reputation for the strictest morality. *Finally, and this almost destroys all hope of cure, their very doctrines have given such a bent to their minds, that they disdain all authority and brook no restraint; and relying upon a false conscience, they attempt to ascribe to a love of truth that which is in reality the result of pride and obstinacy.
… the security of the Catholic name is at stake. Wherefore, as to maintain it longer would be a crime, We must now break silence, in order to expose before the whole Church in their true colours those men who have assumed this bad disguise.
Division of the Encyclical
  1. But since the Modernists… employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole… so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage… to bring their teachings together here into one group
ANALYSIS OF MODERNIST TEACHING
  1. … it must first of all be noted that every Modernist sustains and comprises within himself many personalities; he is a philosopher, a believer, a theologian, an historian, a critic, an apologist, a reformer. These roles must be clearly distinguished from one another by all who would accurately know their system…
Agnosticism its Philosophical Foundation
  1. We begin, then, with the philosopher. Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism. According to this teaching human reason is confined entirely within the field of phenomena, that is to say, to things that are perceptible to the senses… it has no right and no power to transgress these limits. Hence it is incapable of lifting itself up to God… recognising His existence, even by means of visible things. From this it is inferred that God can never be the direct object of science, and that, as regards history, He must not be considered as an historical subject… Nor does the fact that the Church has formally condemned these portentous errors exercise the slightest restraint upon them. Yet the Vatican Council has defined, "If anyone says that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason by means of the things that are made, let him be anathema" (De Revel., can. I); … But how the Modernists make the transition from Agnosticism… to scientific and historic Atheism, which is a doctrine of positive denial… they proceed, in their explanation of this history, to ignore God altogether, as if He really had not intervened… Yet it is a fixed and established principle among them that both science and history must be atheistic: and within their boundaries there is room for nothing but phenomena; God and all that is divine are utterly excluded.
 
I voted for Pope St. Pius X, he’s my favorite (I also have a first class relic of him). I also like Pope Pius XI, I think he’s very overlooked, not sure why.
 
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