John Paul II's Jordan Prayer: Vatican Correction and Quran Kiss
4 min Faith
4 min Faith
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Now let's quickly talk about this rather bizarre clarification that the Vatican made going back to the year 2000 when Pope John Paul II had apparently said, "God bless Islam," um, in a prayer for, I think, Jordan. That was what was carried on the official,
uh, Vatican website. The clarification was made secretly.
No statement was made, so we don't quite know when it was made, but the...
A- apparently it was a dodgy, um, audio, uh, coupled with John Paul II's Polish-accented English. He was actually saying, "God bless this land," rather than God... as in Jordan, rather than, uh, "God bless Islam."
Right. The reason we're mentioning this now, Frank Walker, is that Trad Inc., our old friend at Trad Inc., are cock-a-hoop about this clarification 'cause they're saying, "Oh, look, just how orthodox JP II really was. He never said, 'God bless Islam.' He said, 'God bless this land.'" F- F- Frank Walker, as you are talking
about Trad Inc.'s response to this, we're just gonna gently put up a photo from the year before, the year 1999, uh, May the 14th, the day after Our Lady of Fatima. Um, May the 14th, 1999, when John Paul II was kissing a Quran. I think he's having a good snog with that,
that, that Quran. So that photo's going to go up, um, of, of JP II kissing the Quran as you tell us Trad Inc.'s reaction to just how orthodox JP II really was with regards to Islam. Take it away, Frank Walker.
Oh, th- yes. They, um, Trad Inc. likes to make sure that everybody knows that JP II is good, that every pope must be obeyed and followed and considered to be, you know, in many cases today, especially in Leo's case, g- godlike.
You know, Leo has a, has a sidekick, a little Edgar, that, that he's known since he was 15 years old. He was in, uh, Peru yesterday and he said, "I'm like John the Baptist, and Leo's like Jesus."
So they, they make too much out of these popes.
But, uh, I, I, you know, I think it's clear from the vi- audio, like you, like you just mentioned, that he was saying, "Bless this land," but he did kiss the Quran. I don't think that was a mistake or a misrepresentation.
And, um, you know, they have a lot of, and things to knock against him. What...
I think what this teaches, this event, is that, like Benedict said, "My authority ends at that door of the office.
I don't feel like I have any power over anything in this church because there are so many wolves in the Vatican that, I mean, my life is at stake." And then be- then he ended up running away anyway.
So it wasn't any different when JP II was there.
Those guys were there at the permission, at the permission of whatever the powers that be were. Paul VI and John XXIII, yeah, might be okay. Leo and Francis, completely different.
With Leo and Francis, when they don't, when they put the wrong thing in the, uh, in the Vatican News somewhere, it's 'cause Leo and Francis want it that way.
But in JP II's time- Talking about Vatican News.
Yeah. Talking about Vatican News, 10 seconds, Frank Walker.
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Uh, that's where you can find it. Frank Walker, God bless you. See you next week.
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