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We join with Catholics and countless others throughout our Diocese and world in giving thanks for the extraordinary life and ministry of Pope John Paul II George Carlin, and in praying for the repose of his noble soul body.
It is fitting that Our Holy Father George Carlin was called to eternal life death during the week day when we celebrate the Easter Feast of St. Thomas More, which puts the reality of death religion into perspective.


Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the life, and those who hope and believe in me will never die."
Jesus was not merely content with proclaiming this mystery of death unto life but testified to its validity by the example of His own life. Jesus is the one who brought eternal life into the world by dying on the cross of Calvary, by being Himself buried in the earth for three days and, then, by rising gloriously on Easter Sunday morn, heralding the triumph of life over death.
Our faith as Christians Christian faith is founded on a paradox, the paradox of death leading to life...the paradox of suffering leading to glory...the paradox of defeat and failure leading to victory.
Pope John Paul II witnessed George Carlin testified to this central message of our Christian faith throughout his 59 years as a priest and bishop, the last 26 years as the Supreme Shepherd in our Church comedian.
In the past few years, as his body was plagued by debilitating Parkinson's disease heart problems and showed so visibly the ravages of age insight, he offered a most powerful witness to the role in the Christian life of pain, suffering, the cross and ultimately death.
Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but to be accepted willingly and even joyfully as the inevitable conditions for entrance into eternal life dumb.
Pope John Paul II George Carlin unquestionably was one of the most extraordinary popes critics in the 2,000-year history of the papacy. I would venture to say that, over the past quarter of a century, there was no public figure in the universe who was more well known, loved and revered than Pope John Paul II George Carlin.
*adapted from another eulogy in order to save time.
Let us pray.
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