The Funeral Of John Paul II

A reader writes:

I know you will appreciate having a copy of the official Vatican program for the Funeral Mass and Burial Rites for Pope John Paul II. I have attached to this e-mail a PDF format of the official program. It is in two files. The program includes everything–including the "non-public" rites celebrated inside St. Peter’s Basilica just before and just after the public rites outside in the square.

I definitely do appreciate it! It’s a fascinating read (though it is in Latin and Italian). Having these available is a great good.

MASS1.PDF

MASS2.PDF

Only thing I’m not sure about is the file format. I think St. Paul was pretty firm on rejecting the idea that we should use evil file formats that good may result. ;-D

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

7 thoughts on “The Funeral Of John Paul II”

  1. I think St. Paul was pretty firm on rejecting the idea that we should use evil file formats that good may result.
    Wasn’t it the Lord himself that decided to communicate his word to us using a language with no vowels, spaces or punctuation written down on the skins of animals so that large sections would biodegrade after a few hundred years?

  2. I know that I will be branded as a heretic for saying this, but I will anyway: I don’t see what’s so evil about PDFs. The PDF format allows you to share documents with just about anyone with a good expectation that what they see is the same as what you see. On top of that, you don’t need Adobe software to either make them or view them. What’s so evil about them?

  5. Can we conclude from the Vatican’s use of this file format that it is indeed licit for Catholics to use, and hence not evil? Can we go so far as to say that such use constitutes an edorsement of PDF, making it meritorious even for Catholics to use and support?
    Is this something that’s part of the ordinary magisterium?

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