Otherdave - who is NOT my husband..

Thanks. At least something the Nuns beat into me sticks in my memory! However, I still don't believe their claim that 'Long Live The Pope' is about Pius the 9th. I would suggest that all that reverring of his memory has more to do with him advancing Marian causes.

He's a popular Pope with the folks who used to go hang out at St. Robert Bellermine Church in Bayside back when Veronica Leuken AKA Veronica of The Cross what having nightly conversations with an Approtion of The Virgin Mary only she could see and hear. 'The Seer of Bayside" as she was also known loomed large over my adolesence. Some of the wackier members of my family fell under her sway.

What a bizarre time that was - late 70's. We all had to have our long hair shorn cuz our Mums were certain the Son of Sam was gonna shoot every teenage girl with long hair and at the same Veronica Leuken was telling us Russian Subs with Nukes were lurking off the shor of Rockaway Beach. She told us if we didn't say the Rosary enough, theyd launch their missiles at NYC! There must have been LSD in the whole NYC water supply in 1977.