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  • Account: Pope's Last Word Was 'Amen'

    04/04/2005 12:14:46 AM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 23 replies · 1,217+ views
    CNN ^ | Sunday, April 3, 2005
    An intimate group of people were by Pope John Paul II's bedside at the Vatican when he died Saturday night. Two accounts say the pontiff's final utterance was "amen," the traditional close of a prayer. The translation is: "May it be so." One account, published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, quotes a Polish priest. Another account was told by The Rev. David O'Connell, president of The Catholic University of America, while appearing on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." -SNIP-BLITZER: Give us a little flavor of what we should expect in the next day or two as the preparations...
  • Bush to Address Nation on Pope's Death

    04/02/2005 12:55:52 PM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 23 replies · 1,108+ views
    AP ^ | Apr 2, 2005 | JENNIFER LOVEN
    President Bush called Pope John Paul II "an inspiration to us all" on Saturday and reacted to the pontiff's death by immediately ordering that the flags over the White House fly at half-staff. Bush planned to speak at the White House not even 90 minutes after the death of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope died at 2:37 p.m. EST in his Vatican apartment. Hours earlier, in his weekly radio address, Bush spoke of John Paul as "a faithful servant of God and a champion of human dignity and freedom." "He is an inspiration to us all,"...