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Particularly instructive, though, is a message he gave to us using actions more than words: his behavior during his final days. In a society in which personal convenience is paramount and pain is something dealt with as quickly as possible, the sheer grace with which he accepted his demise is breathtaking. John Paul II suffered greatly in his time on this earth, yet he did not seek to die with “dignity” by having a needle stuck in his arm—as many “ethicists” now compel us to?...
Having appointed all but three of the 117 Cardinals who will choose his successor, John Paul, by sheer longevity, has assured that the church will deviate little immediately from his doctrinal course. He would have understood this as part of God's design. In his memoir Gift and Mystery, he makes a telling observation regarding the period in the 1940s when he attended a secret and illegal school for priests. "I could have been arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people...
Essentially, then, we have arrived at the point where we starve people to death because he or she cannot communicate their experiences to us. What is this but sheer egotism? Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, this is obviously an attempt to play...
Mention mountain climbing, and most people envisage an exhausting clamber up sheer rock faces or dangling from a nylon rope in all weathers. That's absolutely true of some peaks, but Asia also offers less taxing alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation...
...changed my mind that sheer numbers were a problem,” Kidd says. “Instead, it is the specific way these groups are organized...