This was just before my twelfth birthday, so yes, I do remember it. My younger brother came in to tell me that a Norwegian had been elected Pope -- I think that he misheard the word "Venetian".
Odd the announcement has the Papal Name as Johannes Pauli Primi ( John Paul the first) not just John Paul. At 2:40-2:50 and then the italian announcer repeats Giovanni Paulo il Primo. Why the first, at that time wouldn't he have been the only?
Funny, I watched that just a few days ago on YouTube.
I was 8 when this happened. I remember being told the Pope had died and how bewildered I was a month later when I was told the Pope had died, again. I was even more bewildered when the second new Pope came along but was called by the same name as the previous one.
Once I asked my grandmother what she imagined God the Father looked like. We all know what Jesus looked like and that the Holy Spirit appeared as a dove, by what about God the Father? I had yet, in my young life, to see any of the typical depictions of God the Father in art as a white-haired, white-bearded, Zeus-like mythological "god" wearing a crown and robes(an image which has never struck me as suitable). My grandmother had no such pagan images of the Heavenly Father in her head, however. She told me that she imagined if he looked like anyone, he probably looked a lot like Pope John Paul I, with his gentle, kindly, fatherly face.
That seemed just about right to me. Perhaps because of that, Pope John Paul I is, to this day, the Pope I recall the most fondly. I often regret that he was with us for such a short time.
I was 14 and I remember that the TV coverage was interrupting my favorite shows so I was as annoyed as any self-absorbed teenage girl would be. In those pre-CNN-Twitter-Facebook-cell phone-texting-blogging days the coverage seemed intense though it would be minimal compared to what we are bombarded with now. And when poor JPI died and we had to go through another election just over a month later my only comment was "here we go again - more TV interruptions!"
I think their attention span is even shorter now with all the social media bombarding them. Your remark also reminds me of 9/11 - still pre-facebook/twitter (and possibly texting?) times - when I was driving my kid to school and we picked up one of his friends. When we told him what happened to the Twin Towers he thought it was exciting. He was 16 at the time (an extremely immature 16).
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No. My mom was still in high school.
ReplyDeleteThis was just before my twelfth birthday, so yes, I do remember it. My younger brother came in to tell me that a Norwegian had been elected Pope -- I think that he misheard the word "Venetian".
ReplyDeleteHaha = a Norwegian.
ReplyDeleteYes Thom - I was too. What?
Odd the announcement has the Papal Name as Johannes Pauli Primi ( John Paul the first) not just John Paul. At 2:40-2:50 and then the italian announcer repeats Giovanni Paulo il Primo.
ReplyDeleteWhy the first, at that time wouldn't he have been the only?
Funny, I watched that just a few days ago on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteI was 8 when this happened. I remember being told the Pope had died and how bewildered I was a month later when I was told the Pope had died, again. I was even more bewildered when the second new Pope came along but was called by the same name as the previous one.
Once I asked my grandmother what she imagined God the Father looked like. We all know what Jesus looked like and that the Holy Spirit appeared as a dove, by what about God the Father? I had yet, in my young life, to see any of the typical depictions of God the Father in art as a white-haired, white-bearded, Zeus-like mythological "god" wearing a crown and robes(an image which has never struck me as suitable). My grandmother had no such pagan images of the Heavenly Father in her head, however. She told me that she imagined if he looked like anyone, he probably looked a lot like Pope John Paul I, with his gentle, kindly, fatherly face.
That seemed just about right to me. Perhaps because of that, Pope John Paul I is, to this day, the Pope I recall the most fondly. I often regret that he was with us for such a short time.
I was 14 and I remember that the TV coverage was interrupting my favorite shows so I was as annoyed as any self-absorbed teenage girl would be. In those pre-CNN-Twitter-Facebook-cell phone-texting-blogging days the coverage seemed intense though it would be minimal compared to what we are bombarded with now. And when poor JPI died and we had to go through another election just over a month later my only comment was "here we go again - more TV interruptions!"
ReplyDeleteAngela - I was like that at the time of Kennedy's assasination. I think it has a lot to do with the limited attention span of teens.
ReplyDeleteI think their attention span is even shorter now with all the social media bombarding them. Your remark also reminds me of 9/11 - still pre-facebook/twitter (and possibly texting?) times - when I was driving my kid to school and we picked up one of his friends. When we told him what happened to the Twin Towers he thought it was exciting. He was 16 at the time (an extremely immature 16).
ReplyDeleteAre you prophesying again Terry?? You've been pretty accurate lately, I hope an asteroid is not involved.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I mutter things, that's all.
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