I was raised in a very Italian Catholic home in NJ. I couldn't wait to leave Catholicism. Maybe it was the church we attended that made me uncomfortable, uneasy and confused about the religion. The priest that ran the church was the most miserable, angry and scary man. He screamed at my father after confession for not having confessed in decades. He'd pull children out of the communion line for not holding their hands the correct way. He berated my brother when he was just a little boy for being late to Sunday school (it was my mom's fault he was late). My mother stopped going to mass when the sexual abuse scandals hit the press. Nothing about my experience was based on God's and Jesus' message of love. The death of this Pope means nothing to me as he represents everything wrong with this religion.
I have come back to God but in a way that isn't based in religious dogma or church services. I know God is all love and that my relationship is between him and me. And it never felt so good.
If by "Catholic" you mean "Luciferian" then yes, he was Catholic.
Lucifer has called him home. The smell of sulfur lingers.
I was raised in a very Italian Catholic home in NJ. I couldn't wait to leave Catholicism. Maybe it was the church we attended that made me uncomfortable, uneasy and confused about the religion. The priest that ran the church was the most miserable, angry and scary man. He screamed at my father after confession for not having confessed in decades. He'd pull children out of the communion line for not holding their hands the correct way. He berated my brother when he was just a little boy for being late to Sunday school (it was my mom's fault he was late). My mother stopped going to mass when the sexual abuse scandals hit the press. Nothing about my experience was based on God's and Jesus' message of love. The death of this Pope means nothing to me as he represents everything wrong with this religion.
I have come back to God but in a way that isn't based in religious dogma or church services. I know God is all love and that my relationship is between him and me. And it never felt so good.