Who's your favourite pope?

[Laly]

To me a pope kissing a book except the bible, further more of a opposing religion is a false pope.

Same with allowing any non catholic rituals in the vatican.

Of course, what John Paul II did stays highly questionable. I'm just saying that it's possible to put it into perspective.

And allowing non Christian rituals in churches is of course scandalous. It's a serious error.

[Teutone]

Also, I make my own these sayings of pope Pius X as they reflect totally my approach regarding Islam:



Indeed, I don't respect the false Islamic ideology, but I respect Muslims as individuals.

Id never kiss a Quran in my entire life, let alone as religious authority.

[Laly]

Id never kiss a Quran in my entire life, let alone as religious authority.

Me neither. But you like to flatter Islam, saying that what Christianity "used to be" is the same as Islam today.

[Teutone]

Me neither. But you like to flatter Islam, saying that what Christianity "used to be" is the same as Islam today.

Respecting aspects of a opposing faith doesnt make me belong to a faith or deny my own faith.

Christianity used to be dogmatic and involved in politics, factually.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Gregory XVII of El Palmar

[Tannhauser]

Saint Gregory I the Great

Works

Liturgical reforms

John the Deacon wrote that Pope Gregory I made a general revision of the liturgy of the Pre-Tridentine Mass, "removing many things, changing a few, adding some". In letters, Gregory remarks that he moved the Pater Noster (Our Father) to immediately after the Roman Canon and immediately before the Fraction. This position is still maintained today in the Roman Liturgy. The pre-Gregorian position is evident in the Ambrosian Rite. Gregory added material to the Hanc Igitur of the Roman Canon and established the nine Kyries (a vestigial remnant of the litany which was originally at that place) at the beginning of Mass. He also reduced the role of deacons in the Roman Liturgy.

Sacramentaries directly influenced by Gregorian reforms are referred to as Sacrementaria Gregoriana. Roman and other Western liturgies since this era have a number of prayers that change to reflect the feast or liturgical season; these variations are visible in the collects and prefaces as well as in the Roman Canon itself.

Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches, Gregory is credited as the primary influence in constructing the more penitential Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, a fully separate form of the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite adapted to the needs of the season of Great Lent. Its Roman Rite equivalent is the Mass of the Presanctified used only on Good Friday. The Syriac Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts continues to be used in the Malankara Rite, a variant of the West Syrian Rite historically practiced in the Malankara Church of India, and now practiced by the several churches that descended from it and at some occasions in the Assyrian Church of the East.

Gregorian chant

Antiphonary of Hartker of the monastery of Saint Gall
Main article: Gregorian chant
The mainstream form of Western plainchant, standardized in the late 9th century, was attributed to Pope Gregory I and so took the name of Gregorian chant. The earliest such attribution is in John the Deacon's 873 biography of Gregory, almost three centuries after the pope's death, and the chant that bears his name "is the result of the fusion of Roman and Frankish elements which took place in the Franco-German empire under Pepin, Charlemagne and their successors".

Writings

Gregory is commonly credited with founding the medieval papacy and so many attribute the beginning of medieval spirituality to him. Gregory is the only pope between the fifth and the eleventh centuries whose correspondence and writings have survived enough to form a comprehensive corpus.
Gregory wrote over 850 letters in the last 13 years of his life (590–604) that give us an accurate picture of his work. A truly autobiographical presentation is nearly impossible for Gregory.

[Kamui]

Francisco, he is very tolerant.

[Tacitus]

Pius XIII

[Melki]

Francis, for obvious reasons



PopeJohn XXIII was great too

[Aodhan]

all the dead ones
because they are dead