I am surprised that others are surprised...Stunner! Pope Practiced Self-Mortification
"So various circles have been atwitter about news reports that Pope John Paul II practiced certain forms of self-mortification or, in the immortal words of the Associated Press, "John Paul II used belt to whip himself.""Under-educated (sorry, I'm groping for a good, correct word here) Catholics and non-Catholics find this to be something unusual, reeking of fanaticism and 'ultra-conservative' old-time Catholicism, reserved to what they consider 'fringe groups or individuals' within the Church. Interestingly, acts of self-mortification were very often, if not always, performed by those that the Catholic Church considers their greatest saints...
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