I agree with everything that turbo tom has said (except for that which has not yet been backed up by sources eg:weapons).
All this "great man" stuff people have been spouting, sounds like it's straight out of the propaganda news reports (which I expect it mostly is). When I talked to people at school last term, we were all like "This Popes a conservative bum, can't wait till he dies" (catholic school btw), but next term I know it's gonna be like "we should respect him loads, he was a GREAT MAN". Reverence in death is fine by me, but lets not exult his life. We don't have to respect him as "Napstar" sais- I don't respect him, and none of you or your stupid christian ascosiates can make me.
And why did everyone start attacking turbo toms character? Because you were too afraid to confront the damn issue. "Tomekz" or whatever, stop shitting on about being a Pole- you're starting to make me racist, so shutup. And Korn, you said something along the lines of Africans should have less sex so they stop having babys that they can't support. This is the sort of fucked up racism that I always encounter among Australians- I lived in Zimbabwe for two years, and damn it, half of everyone here talks about Africans like they are animals who need to be told how to control their populations... anyway thats another issue. And I don't want to hear inter-denominational conflict in this thread because I squirm when I hear someone say "Catholics are obvbiously wrong- The Bible clearly sais...". The bibles a piece of shit (sorry, I'm not going to elaborate on that one).
The biggest bitch about the Pope dying is that an equally conservative Pope will probably be elected.
Oh,and on all the good things that the Pope has done, I say that he didn't do enough in the context of the 20th and 21st centurys.