There Were Times...

[poliphilo]

... "When it seemed the Lord was sleeping".

No, the Pope wasn't hinting that he'd lost his faith.  He was referencing the story of the storm on the Lake of Galilee (Mark 4, 35-41)- the point of which is that we must carry on trusting in God even when he seems to have abandoned us.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I keep being amazed at people's ignorance of things I consider common knowledge. For instance (according to the quiz show Pointless which I've taken to watching at tea time) over 30% of the British public don't know that Britain was ruled through the later part of the 19th century by a Queen called Victoria.