Reply #33: He could have asked for any personal possessions that he had [View All]

[Rhiannon12866]

To be passed on to his family, but he really had no one. They all died when he was quite young.:-(

It's been speculated that this is why he always particularly enjoyed spending time with groups of young people, even though, when he was a young priest, this violated Church policy of the time.:shrug:

And, after the recent scandals, particularly in the American Church, the next Pope could conceivably change the policy against allowing priests to marry. I was talking, today, with an Irish Catholic lady who's in her 60s, and she brought this up. I just mentioned John Paul II's refusal to budge on the issue of condoning birth control, but she took it that much farther.:shrug: